Learning how to grow your own grapes at home can be an exciting endeavor, but maximizing your yield and maintaining healthy plants depends heavily on when you prune. Grapes sit squarely on the list of ...

Spring will be here before you know it, and we are all looking forward to getting busy in our fields and gardens. This year you might want to consider starting a backyard vineyard or a small 1- to ...

Jim Duff grows several varieties of wine grapes in his Pendleton yard including this Malbec plant. At one time, Duff tried growing wine grapes on a commercial scale near Pendleton, but found the going ...

Grapes — for the table or the wine bottle — are a great plant for the landscape and for the not-so-attentive gardener. “You can abuse them,” says Contra Costa Master Gardener and grape expert Norm ...

That’s the key to growing great grapes in Montana and producing quality wines. Not just any grapes will do. To find out just which ones are suited to Montana’s harsh climate, Lewis and Clark County ...

The garden grapevine is an old-fashioned plant not much favored anymore. Your grandpa used to grow it because it reminded him of boyhood on the farm. But the farm is too far removed from most ...

I have been introduced to the pawpaw plant (and have eaten the delicious fruit it produces) and was told it can grow successfully on Long Island. Yes! You can grow a pawpaw here on Long Island. The ...

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - Like a lot of farmland surrounding Pendleton, Duff Ranches is dominated by dryland wheat fields that stretch over the vast, rolling countryside. About 10 years ago, Jim Duff ...

PENDLETON — Like a lot of farmland surrounding Pendleton, Duff Ranches is dominated by dryland wheat fields that stretch over the vast, rolling countryside. About 10 years ago, Jim Duff decided to try ...