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, ...

Regardless of the season, there is almost always a garden to-do list that you can be working on. In November, for example, there are a handful of plants that you can prune so that they come back ...

"Whilst some dormant perennials, such as buddleia, roses, lavender and summer-flowering spirea will all benefit from being ...

Learn the art of pruning grapevines. Prune grapevines in early spring with and Phillipe Coquard at Wollersheim Winery in Sauk City. Wine growers prune vines to maintain grape quality, to lengthen the ...

The days are getting longer and it’s starting to feel more believable that spring is around the corner. While warmer weather will add a lot of different gardening tasks to the ‘to-do list,’ right now, ...

I finished pruning the more than 300 table and wine grapes Sunday at The Orchard at Ahern in downtown Las Vegas. New growth was just starting on a few of the vines. I delay pruning grapes as long as ...

Grapevines growing on a trellis need annual pruning to keep the vines under control and to increase grape production. The best time to prune is between mid-December and March, after the vines have ...

Whether you are growing wine grapes or table grapes, it’s a good idea in our climate to delay the final pruning until you are confident that freezing, dry and windy weather has passed. The reason for ...

Two projects are underway in the Midwest to test and expand the use of mechanical grape vine pruning. One project in Wisconsin will evaluate mechanical rough pruning for cold climate hybrids. Another ...