Grape Growers to hold meetings The Jamestown Sun Published Wednesday, April 02, 2008 The North Dakota Grape Growers Association will coordinate two meetings in...
I have what appears to be crown gall. I showed up a number of years ago. Over time I've lost the odd vine, but a number have signs of the lessions. The problem...
I don't think there is much you can do about it, someone else may have a different opinion. The crown gall bacteria is pretty much ubiquitous, I think,...
<http://www.grapesearch.com/images/04102008flood/DSCN0017.jpg> http://www.grapesearch.com/images/04102008flood/DSCN0017.jpg This should work better ... From:...
Holy crap. And I thought ours was bad: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loremistress/2089177814/in/set-72157600120678624/ Lisa ... [Non-text portions of this...
This degree of flooding has only happened here only 3 times in the last 50 years, and two of the times happened this month, the last time was in 1982. Welcome...
Crown gall bacteria is contained inside the vine, so if you do cuttings take them from older vines that never seem to show any signs of crown gall. Signs of...
Well Mike, if it sticks around long enough, you can plant own-rooted vinifera and not worry about phylloxera for a year or two. ... g [Non-text portions of...
Iım not having the liquidity problem... yet. This is my front yard two weeks ago. Itıs about a foot deeper in my vineyard. Iıd show you a photo, but we ...
Wow, I am looking at some property that has a really low spot (7-acres total). It is along a creek. Most or nearly all of the vineyard would be planted on a...
Wow, I am looking at some property that has a really low spot (7-acres total). It is along a creek. Most or nearly all of the vineyard would be planted on a...
One of the old treatments for phylloxera was to flood the dormant vineyard for up to six weeks to drown the phylloxera. So dormant vines can tolerate wet feet...
Sounds like it might be a frost pocket too. Site selection issues are hard, because folks usually have a very high financial and emotional investment in a...
Hi Rory it can always be a mixed bag planting along a creek. The soil is usually very good and water close by makes irrigation cheaper. Depending on the...
I feel a little better now, but not much. The river was about 50 yards from my vines, but I didn't dare take any equipment near them for fear of it sinking...
http://westernfarmpress.com/grapes/growth-regulators-0415/ -Lon Rombough Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com...
There aren't many things in which I think of myself as an expert, but vineyard flooding is definately one. We've have three 100-year floods in the last 5...
Thought this might be of interest: http://tinyurl.com/3hjhzm This is something that we talk about for promoting our wineries, and at least one member (Danny...
... No wine.. had to clip off all the fruit and let them drop to the ground... The chemicals in the farmland run-off in the floodwater is nasty. It actually...
My hobby vineyard is 1/2 acre of Merlot, Cab Franc and Viognier in Northern Virginia. I just finished string trimming the rows. While I'm very careful to keep...
It's more of an issue going into winter. I dont think you have anything to worry about. They just bleed a little and then heal over. I have chain saw scars on...
We're organic and we string trim over 30K plants an average of 2 to 4 times a year. With grafted vines and a commercial (powerful) string trimmer, a hit vine...
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Hey, thanks, Dan! I enjoyed that. And Lon, thank you for making your knowledge available to others! Kenton Erwin Portland PS-My pinot and Regent grapes, at...