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Grape Growing
From site selection to maintaining your vines and getting the most out of each harvest, learn how to wine grapes in your own backyard vineyard.
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Home Vineyard Bookshelf
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Vinifera in Florida?
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Growing Grapes In Albuquerque
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Hybrid Grapes Winemaking
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Transplanting Vines
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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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Putting A Value On A Vineyard
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Deprived Vines
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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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Vineyard Queries: A Year of Questions and Answers
This past year brought challenges and rewards for home vineyardists — and also a lot of questions for our vineyard expert Wes Hagen.
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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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Keys to a Healthy Canopy
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Growing Rhône: Varietals to try in your backyard
An overview of the Rhone varieties you may be able to grow in your own backyard.
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Vineyard Q&A (2012 Edition)
Wes Hagen answers your home vineyard questions.
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Growing Riesling Grapes: Tips from the Pros
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Vigor in the Backyard
Vineyard vigor and how to keep it under control to grow the best grapes possible.
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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 Grapevines to Try in Your Vineyard
Celebrating 15 years, here’s 15 grapes you should consider growing!
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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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Joining a grape growing community
Spending time with fellow amateur grape growers can improve your own vineyard.
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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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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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Grapevine Pruning Fundamentals