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The biggest problem I have is fighting off the wasps and flies. If I could let them hang till the brix gets up, I wouldn't have any problems with the acid. I've used 71 B yeast and cold stabilized, and really been very happy with the results. One concern I have with the nortons is the...

I suspect other troubles. You said it didn't frost, but that or lack of moisture is the primary cause of die back. Be patient, and if you want to be sure, plant two more, a person can never have too many vines!

I've got 25 Verona vines being shipped the 8'th of May. Been so wet here, I wonder if I'll have everything done when they get here! I have about fifty norton vines on GDC trellis. Some are going to be eight years old this spring, and I've been pleased with the wine from them. I'm really...

Thank you for the suggestions fellas. Like I said, I'd beeen using. the twine since I started, and found that by going around the shoot and wire three or four times, it created a larger area contacting the vine, and supported the vine nicely. It was just so hard to work with. I like the tape...

I finished my pruning about a week ago. For all the years I've been doing this, i've settled on using baling twine to tie my vines to trellis, and while it works, there has to be a better way! I would like to hear some suggestions as to what everyone else uses, and is happy with. The poly...

I almost always make a second run of any grapes that I'm making wine from. I,ve got some norton that is ready to bottle that is just six months old and is delicious! It might not make it to the bottles!

I'm 70, and still heat the whole place with wood. Have a big outside wood boiler, and floor heat in the shop and house, and have not used an ounce of propane or anything else. The stove takes pretty big chunks, but as the years go by, I find I keep cutting the chunks shorter! That stove will...

Is that what causes that.....here I thought it was age! I got all my concord pruned the other day, actually two days, as the second day the wind was blowing so hard, you had to look twice before you squeezed the pruners. Got all my norton and frontenac to go yet, plus get trellis on some that...

Thanks for that conversion info. That is very good info right there!

I think you made a good choice.

Sounds good. I was pretty dry and was going to work the area that I'm putting my new vines. Soon as I planned to do that, it rained that night, and has been snowing and thawing about every night since. Really looking forward to the new vines. Was pruning today, I'm about a quarter done!

Grapeman, I hope all went well with your cataract surgeries! I'm gonna have to do that too....but not right away!

I would like to know more about your maple wine. How does it taste? I have thought about doing this, but wonder how I would like it! I'm gathering sap right now to make syrup, and would like to see a recipe to get off on the right foot. I presume you just watered syrup to the gravity you...

I'm south of you about 2 1/2 hours, just thirty miles south of the Ne border. I grow norton and cataba and also concord. Just landed fwenty five new verona vines for this spring, and can't wait for four or five years to make wine from them! Hope I live that long:h. I'll be 70 tomorrow, and...

Just saw yyour post, and have to say that those are wild grapes that growing up we always called **** grapes. ***** and birds love them, and they make very good jelly, but the wine is a lot lubruski! I have made wine from them, and if the critters left them alone long enough to get the brix...

All I know is the grapes are doing good, and the weed problem is much better....win win! Thanks for the replys.

I thought I'd share my stab at weed control. While not perfect, it definitely helped. I have a sawmill down the road aways that saws alot of walnut. He warned that it was not good to put on a garden etc, cause the chemicals in walnut don't get along with some plants. Well I tryed it on a few...

I was in Az one year at the right time to score some blood oranges, and it made the very best orange wine I ever made. Made others, but had troubles with acid and harshness, not so with the BO!

Yes, thank you Stressbaby!:db

I'll see if I can describe it! When you have a shoot off a stem, and you would cut just below and just above the shoot, then trim your 3-4 buds on the stem. It looks like a mallet, hence "hammer" cutting. If I knew how to post a pic, it would save a lot of typing!:h