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While looking to top up my Captan 50WP supply today I have found it almost impossible to find -- everywhere I looked were indications that it was out of stock. I thought perhaps it was one of those supply chain situations, but then I found one online retailer had posted that the manufacturer has...

The photos below are from the base of the hillside where my grapevines are planted. In certain places I went through a lot of this stuff when digging the holes for the vines. As I hope you can see, it is a layered mineral, and was actually 'relatively' soft and easy to break up when digging the...

This week while trying to catch up on shoot positioning and tying, I came upon the sudden appearance of this blight-ish appearance in around six of my 50 Cab Franc vines – lower leaves on shoots are fine, but leaves above first catch wire are spindly, yellowish, and cupping. Another 3 or 4 CF...

Five years ago I concluded that my entering a seventh decade of life brought enough maturation to take on a backyard vineyard here in rural Maryland, where my saintly wife and I fled from DC after retirement. Planted 140 or so vines of Barbera, Cab Franc, and Petit Verdot. This year was first...