I planted some muscadine grape vines a couple of years ago. Is it too late to prune them now? How about fertilizing them? Not to worry, this is prime season for pruning your grape vines. The ...

Delay pruning your grapevines a little bit longer. You can cut them back now, but hold off on their final pruning length until after March 1. The idea is to delay the final pruning of grapes as long ...

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 ...

Grapes rarely need to be fertilized, but it can take two to four years to establish vines for fruit production. (Torsten Kjellstrand/2010) Rainy as it is, spring has sprung and that means gardening ...

Maybe you’ve dabbled in making homemade wine and now are thinking about growing your own grapes. While wine grapes are by no means a plant-it-and-forget-it crop, a small backyard vineyard is possible ...

In the wake of the Montecito mudslide, a Los Olivos winemaker is re-using soil from the disaster as a natural fertilizer for some of the grape plants on his vineyard. “We are combining the soil from ...

Grapes are one of the oldest and most extensively cultivated food crops in the world. The earliest archaeological evidence of the domesticated grape comes from an area between the Black Sea and Iran.

Among the easiest fruit crops to produce for Florida gardeners is the muscadine grape. A native to the southeastern United States, the muscadine performs well in a variety of Florida soils. These are ...

Fertilize established shade and fruit trees:with 1 pound of a slow-release 19-5-9 formulation for every inch of tree trunk diameter. Spread the fertilizer evenly under the drip zone of the tree, then ...