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Determining Ripeness

How do you know when it’s time to pull the trigger on harvest? Here’s an introductory look for your first harvest.

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Questions in the Vineyard

Wes Hagen answers your home vineyard questions

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Sustainability Made Easy: Critters chasing critters

Adding certain animals to your vineyard can encourage biodiversity and improve yields.

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Detecting Vineyard Problems

Know what to look for to help identify problems in your home vineyard before they turn catastrophic.

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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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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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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

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A Year in the Life of a Wine: Part I Starting in the vineyard

In the first installment of our new year-long series of how a homemade wine is made from homegrown grapes, we check in with the grapes at a

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Balance in the Vineyard

Balance in a vineyard is defined as a vine that has enough leaves to ripen a small to moderate crop load. To achieve that goal, a good viney

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Vine Clones

Produced from just a mother vine, grapevine clones are intended to assure growers the grapes produced will have a predictable characteristic

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Small Space Viticulture

You don’t need an acre to grow enough grapes for home winemaking. A spot to grow a couple of vines may suit your needs for your next batch.

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Propagating Grapevines

Whether you want to grow grapevines for winemaking, fresh eating, or just decoration, they can be propagated at home simply by taking a few

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Inside the Vineyard Toolshed: Backyard Vines

The essential tools any home viticulturist will need to stay on top of their backyard vineyard.

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Vineyard Trellis and Training

How do we focus on what’s important in a trellis and training system? Let’s look at the basic requirements and select a trellis system that

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Vineyard Consultants: Backyard Vines

The subject of this issue’s “Backyard Vines” is determining when we can solve an issue in the vineyard ourselves, and when it makes se

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Urban and Suburban Vineyards

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A Vineyard Education

Wes Hagen gives a class on winegrape growing.

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Growing Chardonnay: Backyard Vines

Chardonnay is not a grape for every occasion, but when it finds a good home, it will repay your work with sound fruit and delicious wine.

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Vineyard Frost Protection

Frost has the potential to destroy a crop of grapes before it even begins. Follow these tips to protect your vines.

Planning the Right Red: Backyard Vines

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Top 10 Vineyard Tricks of the Trade

Take a look at some pro tricks of the winegrowing trade and see how they can translate into better wine in your backyard.

Backyard Vines Bonus Questions

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Ten Signs of a Healthy Vineyard