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, ...
Jake Cragin, vineyard manager and viticulturist with Sawtooth and Skyline Vineyards, thins shoots of a specially pruned Tempranillo vine outside Nampa, Idaho, on May 31. But the vine’s more vertical, ...
Pruning is perhaps one of the less glamorous facets of vineyard work. Done by hand, it’s both labor intensive and time consuming. If you asked Marco Simonit, though, he’d tell you pruning is an art ...
Q: I have an established clematis vine, and learned that there are a confusing variety of ways to prune them. Do I need to prune it? How can I tell which pruning method to use? A: Clematis are ...
An unpruned grapevine can look like a tangled mess of random vines to those new to pruning grapes. However, grapevine pruning is actually quite straightforward, if you keep in mind a few basic ...
Grape growers around Central Australia have their work cut out for them in the next few weeks as they finish off pruning their vines. For local green thumbs that aren't too sure how it's done, they're ...