The Black grape, Black Hamburg is the most widely grown variety in Scotland. It is easy to grow this grape vine which fruits in abundance readily, and does not need any heat to ripen the fruit.

John has one plant with three rods spaced at two feet apart and are shown in a cold glasshouse in their second year.
The shoots are regularly pruned during the summer at two leaves after each fruiting bunch, then subsequent sideshoots are stopped at one leaf.

This allows ample foliage for cropping but without overcrowding.

Some thinning of grape numbers in the bunch is advisable in late spring.

John is also growing the variety, Muscat of Alexandria taken from summer cuttings from an old grape vine, (nearly 100 years old ), growing in the lean to glasshouses at Bonhard Nursery near Scone Perthshire.