Last fall, my brother purchased a home with a large, beautiful grape arbor surrounding the front yard. He picked buckets of small (1/4–3/8 inch) sweet green grapes and gave them to neighbors and ...

Just like the informal communication system, the grapevines growing in your backyard can get a little unruly if left to their own devices. To keep the plant version in check and encourage good fruit ...

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 ...

Linn County Master Gardener, Lisa Slattery, sent the following about pruning grapevines: This week's blog is about pruning grapevines, it's the last in a series about pruning small fruits for the home ...

Whether you’re planting new grapevines or have inherited an overgrown “grapezilla” that you’ve vowed to tackle, it’s important to prune them in winter while they are fully dormant. It’s easier to see ...

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 ...

Q. We have purchased a home which has a mature grape arbor (two varieties — trunks are three to four feet). When we first looked at the home last year both plants were heavily producing. We did not do ...

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 ...

While winter pruning works best for most deciduous trees, it can reduce blooming in some spring-flowering plants. However, ...