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Veraison started on our Marquettes last week and I have our netting ready to go. Any advice about when I should install it? This is our first year with a harvest, so I'm a bit in the dark about timing. I don't want to install it too soon because of the potential for late seasons...

Does anyone have a recommendation on what ratio to use when mixing a Bordeaux mixture for in-season mildew control? The UC Davis site recommends 10-10-100, but it's unclear to me whether that is for a dormant spray or an in-season spray. Other sites indicate a 1-1-100 ratio.

This might be a useless post without photos, but here it goes... I'm out of town from my vineyard but my father reports that there are some greenish yellow colored insects on the underside of a number of our petite pearl leaves. They are slightly smaller than a grain of rice and the infected...

National Weather Service has us forecast to get down to 30 degrees Friday night. Most of our Marquette vines have an 1-2 inches of new growth, the St. Croix are not far behind and the Petite Pearl just barely made it to bud burst stage. Our vineyard site drains frost decently, but I'm still...

I was hoping to get some pruning advice for the upcoming season. Our vines (predominately Marquette and St. Croix) are entering their third growing season and we have them on a top wire cordon training system. Last year we pruned everything back to two or three buds and over the course of...

I believe we have either anthracnose or phomopsis on a few of our Vanessa and Reliance vines. These plants are in their second year and we did not make a dormant lime sulfur spray this spring. Is there any organic in-season control for this? We have anumber of st. croix, marquette and...