I try to cut them down every year, but man do those things grow fast! And thick vines! Some are as thick as my wrist and grow so high up in the trees there's no way I can reach them. But...I'll find a place for the new ones and keep a good eye on them. Thanks. ;) V.

ooops! Forgot to mention that grapes grow wild here. They can be a nuisance when they come up on fence lines or power lines etc. I watch them every year and try to get them when their ripe but it's futile. One day they aren't quite ready and the next the birds have already been at them. I swear that they just roost in the vines at night and then when they wake up in the morning they sniff the fruit for ripeness and then dig in! Little stinkers lol! At Thanksgiving time when my kids come for the holiday we go out and collect the vines. Then we spend an evening making them into wreaths and things and decorate them for Christmas. They love giving them to co-workers and friends as holiday gifts. MeMo

Hi all. New in this forum. I've been following this discussion with much interest as it seems to me that wild grape has exploded here in N.E. Wisconsin. To be sure, it's been present forever, but in recent years, I'm just seeing more and more of this stuff, and it's very disturbing as it seems to preferentially be climbing up into my favorite trees...........conifers. It is not at all unusual to see vast amounts of otherwise nice spruce, cedar, and pine utterly grown over with this vine. And it does eventually do the trees in, simply by shading them out. So I ask, has anybody else noticed what seems like an increase in the presence of wild grape in your area woodlands....especially along roadsides? +oM

It sounds like erineum mites. If so, only esthetic. But they won't go away if you ignore them. They're very tiny mites which over-winter underneath the bud scales