Before you touch any of your grape vines, make sure you know the essential terminology. Here are the parts of the plant to add to your gardening vocabulary: Understanding these terms makes it easier ...
Pruning grape vines is a midwinter job that keeps plants shapely, healthy and fruiting well. Climate change means that grape vines, once the preserve of large conservatories and warmer hemispheres, ...
An unpruned grapevine can look like a tangled mess of random vines to those new to pruning grapes. However, grapevine pruning is actually quite straightforward, if you keep in mind a few basic ...
For many home gardeners, pruning grapevines is a difficult, confusing chore. Fortunately, an understanding of the growth and fruiting characteristics of the grapevine should help simplify the pruning ...
Pruning plants is one task you can take care of now before spring gardening gets busy. Learn which plants benefit, along with ...
I received an email inquiring about pruning practices and immediately began to ruminate on the possibility of a connection between the act of pruning and the fruit known as a prune. It turns out there ...
My neighbor, John Crawford, is a fourth generation vintner. I recently asked him to share some advice on pruning vines for maximum grape production. Here’s what I learned. John Crawford pruning ...
A grapevine-pruning clinic will be held 9 a.m.-noon Tuesday in the education wing of the Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University greenhouse, 100 Reynolda Village. Reynolda Gardens' assistant ...
February is a busy time for pruning. Deciduous shrubs, grasses, and hedges all need trimming this month along with climbers, ...