On April 17 learn early to mid-season grape growing techniques for your small-scale vineyard with “Backyard Vines” Columnist Wes Hagen. Register now to ensure a smooth start for your vineyard this spring!
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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Understanding “Degree Days”
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Japanese Beetles
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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.
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Planning the Right Red: Backyard Vines
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Top 10 Vineyard Tricks of the Trade
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Backyard Vines Bonus Questions
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Ten Signs of a Healthy Vineyard
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Chitosan, dry climate grapes: Wine Wizard
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Growing Organic Grapes: Tips from the Pros
Three vineyard professionals offer their tips and techniques on growing grapes organically.
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Harvest Planning
Whether you are making wine from grapes for the first time, or a seasoned winemaker who just needs to organize his or her thoughts, the foll
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Training New Vines and Bringing Up Tannins: Wine Wizard
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Vineyard Field Trips
The purpose of field tripping is to learn from other growers’ mistakes and successes, consider vineyard practices from a different point o
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Common Grape Growing Questions
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Planning the Vineyard Work Load
Managing labor in the vineyard can be as easy as scheduling one morning a weekend during the growing season for checking on the vineyard and
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Field Grafting Grape Vines
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Field Blending: Tips from the Pros
Crushed, macerated and fermented together, these grapes come together in a technique known as field blending.
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Pinot Paradise: Backyard Vines
This is the story about a special piece of earth and a shot at the impossible: to grow Pinot Noir less than a mile from the ocean.
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Insects, Viral and Fungal Diseases
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Grapevine Diseases: Vineyard Rx
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Vineyard Questions: Backyard Vines
Wes Hagen answers your grape growing questions.