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, ...

Learn how to select the right cultivars, prepare your soil and prune vines for a bountiful grape harvest in Ohio.

Whether you’re planting new grapevines or have inherited an overgrown “grapezilla” that you’ve vowed to tackle, it’s important to prune them in winter while they are fully dormant. It’s easier to see ...

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 ...

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I received an email inquiring about pruning practices and immediately began to ruminate on the possibility of a connection between the act of pruning and the fruit known as a prune. It turns out there ...

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 ...