Grape Growing

Sustainability Made Easy: Critters chasing critters

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

Detecting Vineyard Problems

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

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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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Minimize Bird Damage in Your Vineyard

Nothing is worse than watching your grapes go to the birds. Fight back!

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

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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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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

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Magnesium Sulfate Vineyard Sprays

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Matching Wine Style to Vineyard Site

Evaluate the specific aspects of your vineyard site to determine the best wine style to grow on your property.

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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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Understanding “Degree Days”