How to Design Edible Wine Landscaping

Use wine grape vines to cover unsightly or awkward parts of your landscape, such as ugly walls or fences. This also provides a support system for your grapevines to grow on, so there is minimal work required for the planting and installation of the vines.

Grow wine grape vines along the corners of your patio, planting one vine at every side. As the grapevines mature, you train them upwards and over your patio, allowing the fruits, leaves and tendrils to hang down, creating a thick, lush effect that is romantic, soft and Mediterranean. The more grapevines you plant evenly spaced apart along the sides, the faster you will develop this landscaping effect.

Plant your own version of an Italian vineyard. This landscaping design is best for gardeners who have a large amount of planting space. Use at least a pair of parallel wine grape trellises to grow your grapes. These trellises are usually heavy wooden posts that have rows of wire strung in between. The grapevines are then trained up onto the wires, spreading outward and upward. This can give your landscape a European feeling, and you can use the produce to make your own wine. Place this landscaping design in an area away from any vegetable or fruit gardens to ensure your vines the greatest growth potential.

Use grape vines to create a privacy wall on one side of your garden. You can do this with a lattice fence that has grape vines trained up it. Space grape vine transplants about four feet apart, then train them up the fence. Once the grape vines have matured, they will create a dense wall of foliage. You can also accent walls or fences that are already on your landscape by building a trellis directly in front or behind them and training grape vine transplants upwards. Such a planting will create an edible, living wall that makes your landscape feel lush and private.

Train grape vines over a garden arbor or arbor walkway to create a focal point in your landscape. You can also train them over an arbor to provides shade to a garden bench.