Swiss
Crowing
So I'm 99% sure they're grapes!Yes.
I had that thought because I have a bunch of cardboard in the garage, but apparently forgot it almost immediately... I should have done that, THEN covered it with the compost... I just put some old hairy vetch seeds down, too. Well....I can always lay the cardboard on top of the vetch if it doesn't end up germinating, or if the grass starts to get out of control again (which I'm sure it will after the nice compost I just laid on top of it).That Mehalela sounds delicious.
I think the cooking term is "medallions" ..but that's French, LOL>
Oh man, before I started with raised beds, I think 3/4 of my time spent gardening was digging out grass, and I got SO sick of it.
If you're going to leave it until fall anyway, you might consider setting out cardboard over the area you're preparing, and keep it in place with something heavy. It will kill all that grass and make your work in the fall so much easier.
It's not an ivy. From what I have researched, it's either grape, moonseed, or porcelain berry. I wrote down all the differences last year or the year before, so I'll have to reread that. In satellite pictures that are quite old that area kind of looks like it may have been a garden of some sort... If I can get it to produce fruit, we will be that much closer to an answer. It's actually flowering this year, so fingers crossed! I should get some pictures of all of it to see what you all think!I don't know definitively about the grape vines, but I've never seen one kill a tree in the way English ivy can. I don't think the tendrils turn into trucks that grow and choke.
If they are wild grapevines, I have many of those here. They are not worth cultivating as far as I've been able to tell. I've never seen a grape on any of them. But perhaps cultivation could change that?
Love that you found some wild dewberries!