For many home gardeners, pruning grapevines is a difficult, confusing chore. Fortunately, an understanding of the growth and fruiting characteristics of the grapevine should help simplify the pruning ...

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 ...

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, ...

Do you have a grapevine that looks great in the Spring but awful by harvest time? Mike McGrath reveals how proper pruning, plucking and picking can produce grapes you’ll be proud of! “Every year I get ...

Q: We have a red seedless grape vine that is about 20 years old. The grapes at one time were big and juicy. The last few years they never mature but have all dried up. There appears to be some sort of ...

While they do not take up as many acres as wheat in Oklahoma, grapes continue to be a popular crop in the state. To help growers understand the importance of proper pruning, Oklahoma State University ...

Q: I am trying to revive an old grapevine that has been neglected. It produces plenty of grapes but of poor quality. It has been untrimmed and unsupported for years. The trunk is rotted halfway ...

After grapevines drop their leaves in the fall, all that’s left are bare, spindly canes, looking for all the world like the vines are sporting a wild, wiry hairdo. But those vines get a buzz cut ...

Alternating canes pruning eliminates old and deteriorated growth to promote younger and more vigorous growth which should be ...

Although winter is downtime for many plants and trees, it can also be an important time for specific plant care tasks like pruning. While there are some plants you should avoid pruning in winter at ...