I am so sorry it's been so long, I didn't realize I neglected an ENTIRE year!  I was in the garden last year an average of 8 hours, trying to get in all the rest of the guild plants I want.  Now that that is done I will proceed more slowly to fill in gaps and use my garden plan to make some vegetable patches and share with you what I learn along the way. Here is one hard lesson I have already learned. I have good news and bad news, and then more good news!  This year it finally clicked!  I was able to prune my grapes without the help of a step by step tutorial.  I pruned them WAY back, they were getting a bit out of control.  I'm really happy with the way they turned out...mostly.

  Unfortunately, I messed up, big time.  I noticed last year that one of the grapes didn't grow any new branches.  I knew it needed to be cut out when I pruned next so this Spring when I got down to pruning (a bit late I might add)  I cut it was back and then went for a saw to cut it out.  As I was sawing through it I noticed some green, it was till alive!  Thinking I must have picked the wrong trunk I went to the one next to it.  This time I checked to make sure it was dead.  I peeled back the bark to look for green, scraped it and didn't see any so I cut it out.  Turns out there was green and a lot of new growth attached to it. Now out favorite grapes is gone!😭
Here's what I learned.  Old canes look dead and they reach a point where they don't produce new growth, that's why we prune back so severely.  I didn't realize that I wasn't pruning back enough and the old, dead trunk, wasn't dead, it was relying on canes further up to produce new growth and it was so high it looked like there was no new growth.  So if you think you need to cut out a grape, start at the top and prune back first, you will probably find that it's still alive.
Once I saw my mistake I cut some canes to root and replant.  At least grapes root easily.

   On to more good news.  As I was pruning my black berries I noticed that they had grown TALL and flopped over to root themselves in new places.  Some I left there and some I moved out of the walk way to replant in the back yard.  I planted 6 in the back yard and have three new ones in the front yard.  If I had realized what they were doing I would not have stopped them last summer, I would have encouraged it.  I saw them flopping over and burrowing down in, but I kept pulling them up, thinking the difference in the look was because they were rotting in the ground, not rooting! Happy dance for more berry bushes!!!