Learn how to properly prune muscadines (spur pruning) and regular grapes (cane pruning). Hands on pruning in our teaching vineyard There are skills you need to have when a terrible storm knocks out ...
When properly pruned, grapes should produce a fruitful, delicious crop year after year. (Tiffany Woods/OSU Extension Service) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Once grapevines lose their leaves, the plants fade into ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Grapevines are fun, fruiting plants that can thrive in the highly fluctuating climate of the Front Range. Without proper maintenance, however, grapevines might not last long. Pruning is essential to ...
Now that the weather is starting to feel a little more like fall and the days are getting shorter, many gardeners should start to think about pruning and other fall gardening activities. This week I ...