Grapes are the most popular and widely grown fruit in the world. From the tropics to Alaska, grapes will grow successfully in almost every climate. Whether you raise them for fresh eating, or for making wine, juice, or jellies and preserves, the right grapes will reward you with abundant crops for a modest investment of time and effort.
Now for the first time comes a book for grape growers who wish to use organic growing methods to raise healthy, thriving vineyards in the backyard or on a small commercial scale. The Grape Grower distills the broad knowledge and long-time personal experience of Lon Rombough, one of North America's foremost authorities on viticulture.
From finding and preparing the right site for your vineyard to training, trellising, and pruning vines to growing new grapes from seeds and cuttings, The Grape Grower offers thorough and accessible information on all the basics. The chapters on grape species, varieties, and hybrids are alone worth the price of a college course in viticulture. Technical information on the major (and minor) insect pests and diseases that affect grapes, as well as their organic controls, makes this book an invaluable reference that readers will turn to again and again.
Rombaugh also provides a wealth of information on hardy but little-known grapes that are native to North America, and on a wide range of topics, including:
pruning neglected or overgrown vinesgrowing grapes on arbors and in greenhousescontrolling animal pests in the vineyardbunch grapes and muscadine grapes for the Southwinter protection, and how to increase the hardiness of grapescreating your own new varieties
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Length: 12 minutes
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Features:
- Many tips and pointers included.
- Shown in "hands on" style right in the author's vineyard.
- Teaches all the basics of pruning grape vines.
- Easy to follow, from start to finish.
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"An excellent complement to this book (The Grape Grower) is (the) two-DVD set released in 2008 on the proper pruning and training of grapevines. " -J. Lerner, Washington Post, Dec. 13, 2008
Proper Methods For Pruning Grapevines.
By Lon J. Rombough
An adjunct to the award winning book, THE GRAPE GROWER, this two video set takes you step-by-step to teach you how to prune dormant grape vines in any situation. The first video teaches the basic methods, tells which works best for your grapes, AND gives the principles behind the methods.
Presented in "hands-on" style by Lon Rombough, author of The Grape Grower, you'll see how new and old vines are handled during pruning, and you'll learn tricks and tips to insure regular crops of the best quality fruit the vine is able to produce.
This video covers the basics of pruning - how to prune to spurs or to canes, and how and why to choose one system over another. Once you understand that, you know how to train your vines to suit any situation, trellis, or climate. All training systems are based either on pruning the vine to spurs on old wood, such as cordon trained or head trained vines, or to canes, such as the old Kniffen system. All systems use variations and combinations of these two methods. Once you know these basics and how they work, you'll be able to adjust any vine to any given situation. Vine too vigorous? Leave more buds to reduce the vigor. Spur with low vigor? Prune to rejuvenate it. Adjust crop levels by pruning, keep the vine bearing regular crops of good quality instead of flipping between high and low crops, etc.
Once you know this, you can look at a training method and understand it and how to prune your vines in that way.
The second DVD includes material on how to use "two step" pruning to give you additional frost protection, how to use layering to get new vines into production in the shortest time possible, and beautiful samples of what YOUR grapes can look like when they are properly pruned.
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List Price:
$3.76
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Features:
- Serrated hook blade for easy harvest.
- Made of top quality stainless steel.
- For harvesting grapes, melons. Bright orange handle for easy field identification.
- Very high quality and craftsmanship.
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Zenport® K101 Stainless Steel Curved Hook Grape / Melon Knife
Serrated hook blade made of stainless steel for harvesting grapes, melons. Very high quality and craftsmanship. Bright orange handle for easy field identification. Lifetime Guarantee. Don't be fooled by Zenport imitations!
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