Propagating grapes from dormant hardwood cuttings is a realistic venture for anyone with access to grape vines. Since grapes should have 80 – 90% of their vines removed every year, you just need ...

Real estate agent JoAnn Wall recently sold a 285-acre vineyard in the Salinas Valley that was bulldozed to make way for a row crop. Wall believes more farmers will transition out of the wine grape ...

If a grape vine is pruned too much and all of last year's growth is removed, it will produce lots of new shoots but no flowers or fruit. Either last year’s growth died or it was pruned out.

Dear Carol: I have some wild grape vines growing, but only one of them has fruit. There are others around the property and they look like grape vines but no fruit.

The pruning limits the number of grapes each vine can produce, again intensifying the juice in each grape. Although short, the stems can reach 5 inches in diameter – huge by grape-vine standards.