Growing Grapes
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Minimize Bird Damage in Your Vineyard
Nothing is worse than watching your grapes go to the birds. Fight back!
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Grape Growing Q&A
Grape growing questions answered!
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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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Harvesting in the Moonlight
The heat of the day is not necessarily the time to harvest your ripe grapes. A night harvest allows you to bring the fruit in when it’s cool
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Post-Harvest Cleanup
Don’t neglect your vineyard just because the grapes have been harvested. Here’s the cleanup that needs to take place.
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Pesticides in the Vineyard: Tips from the Pros
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Irrigating the Home Vineyard
Explore the three most common methods of irrigating a home vineyard, some of the more common myths surrounding watering grapevines, and if y