You have prepared your site; you have decided what variety to grow; now it is time to plant your grape vine! Well, unfortunately, this is where many home grape growers terribly fail!
Planting a grape vine is not hard, if fact, it is one of the easiest fruits to get started, but there are a few [...]
For any wine enthusiast wine is more than just a liquor, it is a valuable beverage that triggers a certain chemistry and plays a fundamental role not just from the commercial point of view but intellectually, universally and socially speaking. The very history of wine is dating back to times when only the most well [...]
Have you ever considered growing grapes in a greenhouse?
Growing vitis vinifera grapes for some of you guys in the colder climates is something you can only dream of. Vitis vinifera, as you probably know by now, is susceptible to cold damage when the temperatures drop below 0 *F or -15*C. Now this is really cold, [...]
Hello grape growers!
I am so excited, I just had to put this on my blog! Here is a blog that shows you a really great looking vineyard!
Glen from Slovenia bought the Complete Grape Growers Guide in February this year. He planted his 403 grape vines in April and trained them with the help of my [...]
I want to share with you a secret many grape growers overlook - and it is the effect bud break has on your grape vine.
What is bud break?
Bud break is when the buds on spurs and canes you pruned during winter (or early spring), breaks open and reveals the new growing point of the shoot [...]
Hello grape growers.
Today we will be looking at the grape vine sex - and NO, this is not what most of you thought it would be!
Grape vines, like many other fruit types, are self-pollinated where the female and male parts needed for pollination are present on the same plant. If you can recall your biology [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hello GrapeViners,
I have something really interesting to share with you today. Do you know what ring-barking is?
Look at the picture below:
Research has shown that the direction of sap flow in a grape vine is in the direction of the red arrows. Sap from the roots of the vine, goes upwards through the core and young [...]
What is Compost? A good description for compost can be decomposed organic material that is produced when bacteria in soil break down garbage and biodegradable trash, making organic fertilizer.
Gardeners and farmers use compost for soil enrichment. The relatively stable humus material that is produced from a composting process in which bacteria in soil mixed with [...]
