Pruning grape vines is a midwinter job that keeps plants shapely, healthy and fruiting well. Climate change means that grape vines, once the preserve of large conservatories and warmer hemispheres, ...

Last fall, my brother purchased a home with a large, beautiful grape arbor surrounding the front yard. He picked buckets of small (1/4–3/8 inch) sweet green grapes and gave them to neighbors and ...

Before you touch any of your grape vines, make sure you know the essential terminology. Here are the parts of the plant to add to your gardening vocabulary: Understanding these terms makes it easier ...

Q. We have purchased a home which has a mature grape arbor (two varieties — trunks are three to four feet). When we first looked at the home last year both plants were heavily producing. We did not do ...

Q: I have two different types of grapes in my yard. One has lots of grapes every year and the other only occasionally has a couple bunches of grapes. Of course the one that rarely produces is the ...

I have a two year old Concord grapevine that I have growing on an arbor. Last year, I read conflicting information on pruning (one source said to prune it and the other saying not to prune its first ...

Anthocyanins are important, red, blue, purple and purple-black plant pigments that are widely distributed in the cell vacuoles of flowers, fruits, roots, stems and leaves. 1,2 Grape anthocyanins are ...