Q: When is the best time to fertilize a mature muscadine grape vine? What product should I use? Answer: The fertilizer recommendation for mature muscadine grapes is to begin around April 7th with a ...

What organic fertilizer is best for my newly planted apple trees and grape vines? Most fruit trees and vines don’t need much fertilizer. Your best bet is compost or aged manure or grass clippings. If ...

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 ...

I planted some muscadine grape vines a couple of years ago. Is it too late to prune them now? How about fertilizing them? Not to worry, this is prime season for pruning your grape vines. The ...

Delay pruning your grapevines a little bit longer. You can cut them back now, but hold off on their final pruning length until after March 1. The idea is to delay the final pruning of grapes as long ...

Grapes rarely need to be fertilized, but it can take two to four years to establish vines for fruit production. (Torsten Kjellstrand/2010) Rainy as it is, spring has sprung and that means gardening ...

Fertilize established shade and fruit trees:with 1 pound of a slow-release 19-5-9 formulation for every inch of tree trunk diameter. Spread the fertilizer evenly under the drip zone of the tree, then ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. What is one of the most widely grown fruits in the ...

Maybe you’ve dabbled in making homemade wine and now are thinking about growing your own grapes. While wine grapes are by no means a plant-it-and-forget-it crop, a small backyard vineyard is possible ...

In the wake of the Montecito mudslide, a Los Olivos winemaker is re-using soil from the disaster as a natural fertilizer for some of the grape plants on his vineyard. “We are combining the soil from ...

Among the easiest fruit crops to produce for Florida gardeners is the muscadine grape. A native to the southeastern United States, the muscadine performs well in a variety of Florida soils. These are ...

Grapes are one of the oldest and most extensively cultivated food crops in the world. The earliest archaeological evidence of the domesticated grape comes from an area between the Black Sea and Iran.