Planting guide

When to plant grape

Self-fertile table grapes train onto a pergola or fence for shade and fruit. In Melbourne it goes in All year.

Start as: Bare-root plant or Potted plant
Ready in: 3+ years to the first crop
Spacing: 200 cm
Depth: 0 cm
Sun: Full sun (6+ hours)
Water: Low
Effort: Some care
Frost-tender: No

When it goes in

● means grape can go in that month, ○ means wait. Worked out from each town's real monthly temperatures, not a zone map. Pick your town for the full list for that month.

Australian towns and cities
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Sydney	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Melbourne	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Brisbane	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Perth	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Adelaide	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Gold Coast	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Newcastle	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Sunshine Coast	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Canberra	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Central Coast	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Geelong	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Wollongong	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Hobart	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Townsville	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Cairns	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Toowoomba	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Darwin	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Ballarat	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Mandurah	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Bendigo	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Launceston	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Mackay	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Rockhampton	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Coffs Harbour	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Blue Mountains	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Bunbury	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Bundaberg	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Alice Springs	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Mildura	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○
Port Macquarie	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●

Around the world
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Auckland	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Wellington	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Christchurch	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
London	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Manchester	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Edinburgh	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Dublin	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
New York City	○	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	○
Los Angeles	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●
Chicago	○	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	○	○
Seattle	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Austin	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Toronto	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Vancouver	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Cape Town	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Johannesburg	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Singapore	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Mumbai	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Paris	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Berlin	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○

How to plant grape

Plant dormant vines in a sunny, well-drained spot.
Train onto wires or a pergola.
Prune hard in winter to two buds per spur.
Taste before picking; grapes do not ripen off the vine.

Grape varieties

Classic varieties are the reliable, widely grown ones. Adventurous ones are heirlooms, odd colours and rarities.

Thompson SeedlessClassicsweet · 19–26 wksGreen, seedless; table or sultana
Crimson SeedlessClassicsweet · 19–26 wksRed seedless table grape
ConcordAdventurouscold-hardy · heirloom · 19–26 wksPurple 'slip-skin' grape with famous flavour
Purple CornichonAdventurouscolourful · 19–26 wksElongated blue fruit; heritage variety

Where to buy seedlings

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Good companions

Rose, Hyssop, Chive

Grape by month

Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec

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