How to Train Valiant Grape Vines

Drive a 6.5 foot wooden post into the ground using a post driver, burying the bottom foot of the post into the ground. Place the post driver over the wooden post and, holding the handles on each side, push the post driver down in quick motions repeatedly to drive the post into the ground. Repeat with the other wooden post 5 feet away from the first.

String two horizontal lines of fencing wire between the two posts. The lower wire should be 3 feet above the ground and the higher one 2 feet above the lower wire. Wrap one end of fencing wire around the first post, pull tautly, and wrap around the second post.

Drive a stake into the ground next to a young Valiant grape vine not yet 3 feet tall. Secure the cane of the vine to the stake using garden twine, wrapping around both the cane and the stake and tying the twine in a double knot.

Train the growing cane to the lower and upper wires as it grows to over 3 feet tall, using garden twine to tie around the cane and the point at which it meets each wire. Prune off any horizontal branches that are growing below or above the bottom wire. Cut the horizontal branches growing along the lower wire back to the second bud you see growing on the branch. The cane will now be trained to grow straight and the first horizontal branches will be trained to grow along the lower wire.

Prune the mature Valiant grape vine so it only has vines growing along the lower and upper wires, not between the wires, to keep the vine trained to grow along the wires.