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Grape vines have been grown since forever in the UK. They do fine. They are all over london. What's not easily doable is getting ripe fruit off them (fruit, yes
by throwaway_pdp09 7y ago
Grape vines have been grown since forever in the UK. They do fine. They are all over london. What's not easily doable is getting ripe fruit off them (fruit, yes, little green bullets, ripe... much harder). I don't know how it's done commercially currantly[0].
One planted in 1769 is still around. I assume it's under glass. Saw it when I was a kid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace)
[0] thank you, thank you
Edit: a bit more on that ancient and huge vine https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-great-vine-east-molesey-england https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-great-vine-east-mole...