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 ...

WEST PARK, N.Y. – Local growers and farmworkers are invited to a bilingual farm training program on learning how to prune grape vines. It is scheduled from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, at Red Maple ...

March is a busy time for pruning. Go ahead and prune shade trees, hardy fruit trees, summer blooming shrubs, grapes and raspberries. Evergreens like Japanese yew, Juniper, Arborvitae and spruce can ...

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 ...

February is a busy time for pruning. Deciduous shrubs, grasses, and hedges all need trimming this month along with climbers, fruit, and any perennials left untrimmed in flower beds over winter. It may ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers received $6 million in grants to automate one of the most laborious and costly jobs in vineyards and apple orchards. Each year, fruit growers spend ...

Each fall I enjoy a special treat: munching the sweet-sour flavor of grapes I have grown. I generally eat them outdoors as they are full of seeds and I enjoy spitting out the seeds, much as I did as a ...