When deciding how to build a grape trellis, backyard systems with high angles achieve sunlight, airflow, and easy pruning. Growing grapes is easy, fun, and rewarding. A friend of mine once said that ...

Just north of Naples, something quite peculiar rises from the hodgepodge of industrial buildings, half-completed apartment houses, stables of water buffalo, sheds of drying tobacco and groves of fruit ...

Harvesting grapes from a pear tree last summer reminded me why it is so important to control the grapevines this year. Without proper confinement to the fence below, the grapevines had climbed into ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Q: I have a trellis on the ...

CORVALLIS – Espaliered trees bring fruit down to eye level. They allow for easy picking and take advantage of small spaces. But don’t kid yourself into thinking espaliers are any easier than ...

Too much heat from climate change can ruin wine Commonly used trellis systems provide zero protection from sun and heat Switching to high-wire trellis systems protect grape color and quality Exposing ...

You don’t have to live in Napa to ripen grapes in your garden. Maybe I’ve read too much Frances Mayes about her idyll in Italy, but there’s something so Mediterranean about growing grapes. The idea is ...