How To Grow Grapes | My Grape Vine Blog

With this article, I will discuss an important part of preparing the grape bunches for harvest.  We are about 3 weeks away from starting to pack our first Flame Seedless grapes, and although we had a hard time thinning out the bunches, the crop size an quality at this stage is excellent.
Bunch sizing, as mentioned before, [...]

Those of you who were subscribed to My Grape Vine a year ago, will probably remember the article I wrote on the 30th of September 2008, about layering a grape vine - where you take a cane from an existing grape vine, to establish a new one.
This is a neat little trick you can use, if [...]

Suzana, one of the first members of My Grape Vine, send me this question a few days ago.
She wanted to know what those numbers on a fertilizer packaging means.
 
With this article, I will show exactly what they mean and how you can calculate, precisely how much of a certain fertilizer mixture you must apply, in order to get the [...]

31 October not only means Halloween for people from the USA, but means the end of the growing season for most grape growers in the Northern Hemisphere as well.
 
 
This brings us to a question I received after yesterdays blog post.  Tracy asked if we are on vacation the whole winter, because the grape vines are [...]

At least one out of every ten emails I receive, has something to do with either “no grapes on a grape vine”, or “too small berries”, or “not enough grapes”.
This is for sure the most common question asked by new grape growers.  Unfortunately, it is on the most difficult to answer as well, because there [...]

Powdery mildew is the main fungal disease that most grape growers confront every seasons.   The fungus that cause powdery mildew is called Uncinula Necator.
Many grape growers struggled to keep powdery mildew under control in vineyards, as once your vines are infected and the symptoms are visible, the disease already is in an advance stage of development.
The symptoms are visible on all green parts of [...]

I often receive question from new grape growers to explain the terminology I use in my articles.  After reading this, I hope you will be able to picture or identify all the different parts of the grape vine.

Cuttings or grafted cuttings: 
A grape vine cutting, is a small piece of wood (4 to 12 buds in [...]

With this article, I want to show you how you can protect your young grape vines, while spraying weed-killer.
But before we move on:

Remember that weed-killer can be harmful.
Take note of what weed-killer you use, (contact or systematic)
Use properly maintained and calibrated spray equipment
Read the instructions on the container label,
Ensure that you will not contaminate primary [...]

Being working online and offline with thousands of vineyard owners from all over the world, the past four years, I know that this question still remains a mystery.  Well, I’m about to show you proof that early pruning will for sure influence the time of bud break.
During the past dormant season, we started pruning before [...]

Hi friends, I hope you are all well.
In a previous post I asked what I can do to improve this blog, and quite a few of you asked if I can upload some pictures of subsribers’ vineyards.
I just received these ones from Scott and I must say: “This is IMPRESSIVE results!”
Scott, became a member of [...]