Archive for March, 2007

Pruning Thompson Grapes

Pruning your Thompson Seedless grape vine is easy, IF you know what you are doing!
Thompson Seedless is, what we grape growers call it, unfruitful. This means that a Thompson don’t produce grapes from bud 1 to 6 on a shoot. Now, you might think: “My Thompson bears grapes on those buds!”. Yes, that is true, [...]

What to Expect When Attempting your own Hydroponic Garden

In order to know what to expect when attempting your own hydroponic garden is to know what a hydroponic garden is. Once you understand what this type of gardening entails, you will be more aware of what to expect when constructing a garden of this nature.

Hydroponics is the practice of growing plants in water [...]

Laying out your vineyard

Hello grape fans!

Here is how to lay out your vineyard for optimum production, pest control, grape coloring and for best airflow through the vines.
Spacing:
I get lots of question about the spacing of the vines (in the row and between the rows). Now, there isn’t really something like wrong spacing between vines, but there are a [...]

Progress with website

Hello dear grape lovers.
Just a short update on the My-Grape-Vine website.
We are nearing a 1000 subscribers now! Amazing isn’t it!
As promised, I am working on making My-Grape-Vine, the ultimate grape growing website. I’ve added a support page, where you can quickly send any grape growing question to My-Grape-Vine.
The next thing I want to [...]