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 ...

Anthocyanins are important, red, blue, purple and purple-black plant pigments that are widely distributed in the cell vacuoles of flowers, fruits, roots, stems and leaves. 1,2 Grape anthocyanins are ...

Q: Is this a good time to prune grape vines? Also, my spouse told me that our two grape vines fare better when I don't do anything to them. Could this really be true? Please explain. A: Yes, while ...

Whether you are growing wine grapes or table grapes, it’s a good idea in our climate to delay the final pruning until you are confident that freezing, dry and windy weather has passed. The reason for ...

Do you have a grapevine that looks great in the Spring but awful by harvest time? Mike McGrath reveals how proper pruning, plucking and picking can produce grapes you’ll be proud of! “Every year I get ...

I prune all three in January, and again in summer. The January timing is especially important for kiwi and grape — vines whose sap begins rising early. To avoid copious bleeding from the cuts, early ...

After grapevines drop their leaves in the fall, all that’s left are bare, spindly canes, looking for all the world like the vines are sporting a wild, wiry hairdo. But those vines get a buzz cut ...

CORVALLIS – When homeowners set out to prune grapes, kiwifruit and other berry crops, they often stand in front of the plant at a complete loss. Just getting started is intimidating. “Over my many ...

Raymond Haak planted his first grapes in 1969, when his wife, Gladys, gave him two vines for their 10th wedding anniversary. "That was 47 years ago," he says. "I put them in the ground and began to ...

There are tough critics. And then there are really tough critics, of the Simon Cowell variety. Kirk Lokka, vineyard manager of Emeritus Vineyards, likely could fit in the latter group solely for his ...