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What are some of your IPM strategies? All chemical, some cultural some biological? We have 12 acres planted in fruit. We discovered that having a planned out IPM is absolutely necessary. We currently have a decent spray program, following the recommended practices. We also take active steps...

Have you ever been successful at intentionally delaying bud bud break?

Ive had trouble in the past with anchoring blackberries.....fixed it by cutting T posts in half and driving them completely and tieing back to the end posts. On my Muscadine vinyard we used 10'- 21/2 & 3" rigid galvanized conduit pipe for end, and main posts every 50'....T posts at 20' On our...

Ive been kicking around the idea of mulching my muscadines and grapes this fall... I was thinking of mounding sawdust up around them to help get em through their first winter. Itd be easy to do when we start mulching the blueberries.... Opinions?

Does anyone here own and use a weed badger? Or have you personally operated one? Im thinking that i want one for helping with weed management in the vinyards and orchards.

I've long had a notion than some of the native grapes have value in jams, jellies, and small batch wines. An acquaintance of mine provided me with a pickup bed of vine he pulled down with a tractor. These vine grow on his family's farm. They produce a red/black grape about the size of your...

Have any of you actually cut and installed and have long term experience with Red Cedar posts, using them as trellis line posts?

If you have Muscadines in any large quantities, how are you trellising them? How are you training them to make it to the trellising? String? river cane/bamboo? Have any of you tried GDC on Muscadines? Most publications recommend a single high wire. I'm thinking that the GDC offers more...

What are you using for dead wood pruning? 2" range Gear type or mechanical lever advantage type loppers? Bypass or anvil?

After chewing, on it for a couple of years, and seeing what others have done and reading everything I could find on it this is what I came up with to be the best option for me. It's economical, easy enough, and should last longer than I do. We've had our Blackberries trellised on 2 wires but...

Does anyone know why everyone uses wood as opposed to steel end posts for trellis Anchorage? Steel drill stem is cheaper than wood land asts longer...Just wondering? I have a good pile of several hundred feet of demoed out 21/2" ID-10' long rigid heavy wall Conduit.... Equal to schedule 40...

With an eye towards our future small farm winery...We are planting a small vinyard. Ground prep is under way... I'm looking for opinions on the variatles below...? This is my Vineyard order for early spring 2018... I should have them in February. Both wine and sweet table/jelly...

Earlier this year we had a sudden explosion of a nasty little fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila. SWD.... I had already been following the recommended treatment program. Or so I thought... I received a call from my harvest superintendent, also known as, my wife, saying that there was...

I've been chewing on how to make one sprayer do all of our spray needs, or most of them at any rate. Nothing is available commercially, atleast not anywhere near our price range, at this time. So after some thought, this is the boom sprayer modifications I built. The boom is set to run up...

Im looking for trellis advice. I have an acre of Blackberries that the primocanes have gotten pretty heavy on. I used 6' T posts driven a foot deep. I braced to the inside with another T post at roughly 45deg. Line posts are 50' apart. What are you using for anchoing your trellis end...

I lucked onto 100 1.5s clear, brown, amber, brows, ect... all corkable of course.. I love to trade with someone for some 750ml... bottles.. or even some 375s???? if you are interested Pm me.. i'm in NW Arkansas so distance may be a concern for some?? :b Thanks bob..

I found this very interesting on H2S...Do you see any issue's with it? HYDROGEN SULFIDE AND ITS DERIVATIVES Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) has been known to plague winemakers for centuries, but it needn't. Its causes are as simple as is its cure, if dealt with soon enough after detection. There...

I have recently traded back for a bottle of peach and white grape i made in 97-98... the guy i gave it to never opened it, and it was undisturbed according to him the entire time.. He had it on top of his dresser, and it had to of been exposed to light.. the cork has pushed out 1/2" or so.. and...

This is an informative site..tons of good stuff http://www.bcawa.ca/ http://www.bcawa.ca/winemaking/

This place has thousands of varity's of seeds in stock.. Tomatoes, peppers, ect.. http://www.tomatogrowers.com/