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Experimenting With Deficit Irrigation

With ongoing drought concerns in many wine-growing regions, the practice of deficit irrigation is gaining traction, not only for using less

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Site Planning and Prep: Designing a modern backyard vineyard

For anyone who plans on creating a small-to-moderate-sized backyard vineyard, this column should be mandatory reading. Because the best advi

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Dear Wes: A new vintage of backyard Q&As

The reader letters have been piling up, so Wes decides it’s come that time again to pick up the pen and share some of the most useful ques

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Making Lemonade: Vineyard fixes for underwhelming grapes

Not every harvest is going to be perfect. When the grapes come in at less than ideal numbers or with other “flaws,” make sure you’re w

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Dear Wes: I asked for questions and you listened!

Two attendees of the Backyard Grape Growing Online Boot Camp had some follow-up questions; one on their spray protocol, the other about com

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The Top Twelve Tips: Bringing the fruit in right

The final days leading up to your grape harvest can be anxiety-ridden for most hobbyists . . . and even for professionals. Get pointers on h

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Dirt Don’t Lie: The impact of soil on vineyards and wine

Determining your soil type can tell anyone growing grapes a lot about the conditions under which your vine’s root system will develop and

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Dealing with Excessive Heat in the Vineyard

Relentless heat can be an anxious time for winegrape growers. But the worry of vineyard heat stress doesn’t need to cause stress in the gr

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Field Blending

Blends are most often made from varietal wines prior to bottling, but field blending, where all of the varieties are harvested and fermented

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Cold Climate Grape Growing

Growing grapes in cold climates has its challenges — from finding varieties that will work to keeping vines alive over harsh winters — 

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Growing Riesling Grapes: Tips from the Pros

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Small Scale Vineyard Spraying

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Controlling Grapevine Vigor: Tips from the Pros

If vines are too productive, or not productive enough, the grapes (and resulting wines) will suffer. Two grape growing experts share some vi

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15 Home Vineyard Tips

In the pursuit of growing better and better wine in our backyards, Wes Hagen assembled a list of 15 things he’s learned about growing grapes

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Home Vineyard Experiments

How to set up, record and understand small-scale vineyard experiments, and suggest a few that will measurably increase wine quality.

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Grapevine Pruning Fundamentals

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Organic Grape Growing: Tips from the Pros

Growing grapes organically, like any other crop, is often more work than using synthetic fertilizers, solutions and sprays. But in the end,

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A Year in a Home Vineyard

From winter dormancy all the way through fall harvest, follow the annual lifecycle of a grapevine in this author’s New York home vineyard.

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Vineyard Winter Maintenance: Tips from the Pros

All done using their energy to grow shoots, grapes and leaves, vines in the winter begin storing water prior to the first frost and then go

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Home Vineyard Extreme Cold Weather Tips

The degrees of cold temperature damage that can occur in grapevines, techniques to assess that damage, and ways to protect them.

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Drought Strategies for Grape Growing

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Build a Backyard Vineyard Sprayer

Need a sprayer for your backyard vineyard? Build this system designed for a 1,000-vine (2-acre) vineyard. Follow our guide.

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Troubleshooting Home Vineyards: Tips from the Pros

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Pesticides in the Vineyard: Tips from the Pros

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Cold-Climate Grape Growing: Tips from the Pros

Even the most ideal climates for growing grapes face certain hardships, but growing vines in colder climates definitely have more than their