Grapevines tend to be easy to propagate from hardwood cuttings. When a cutting has roots, it can be planted at any time of year. For best results, however, it is a good idea to wait until after the ...

Spring will be here before you know it, and we are all looking forward to getting busy in our fields and gardens. This year you might want to consider starting a backyard vineyard or a small 1- to ...

CORVALLIS – Snipping some cuttings from the garden this time of year will produce your own private nursery of plants by spring. Whether you plant the results of your “snip and stick” project or give ...

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

Early to mid-summer is the best time to propagate muscadine grapes. Muscadine grapes are native to the southeastern United States. They are tolerant to most insects and diseases and normally can be ...

As a backyard gardener, I have always been amazed with the tenacity of the grape plant. Grapes I planted in my yard (and seemingly removed years later) continue to come up each summer vainly hoping I ...

Today I bring you the real juice on The Route 66 Trailhead Vineyard exhibit along the Pacific Electric Inland Empire Trail, featuring the planting of about 75 Mission grapevines, recently dedicated at ...

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 ...

More than 100-miles west of Bakersfield, along the central coast of California.—a piece of Kern County is planted among the rolling vineyards of Paso Robles—rows and rows of vibrant vines, where the ...

How magical: Stick a piece of wood in the ground and next year it becomes a plant. That stick is a hardwood cutting, an easy way to multiply some favorite trees, vines and shrubs. They're called ...