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The key ingredient to trapping gophers is to not have anylight showing when your done, or they will clog the trap with dirt. The best way to go about it is to probe for the main run with a small rod. You will know when you hit it, a hollow spot, and it is usually pretty straight between the...

VnB, look into Verona. I really like that grape, but have had much misfourtion with all my grapes the last several years. It started with an aerial spraying incident, and the last two springs with way too much water, along with hard freezes at the wrong time. Sometimes makes you wonder if it...

Local nurserys are the worst place in the world for getting grape plants that are marked wrong. When I moved here and wanted to plant a vineyard, I went to a local gardan store, and bought seven catawba vines. Four years later, they matched my concord vines a 100%....go figure!

Or a 243! I hate them wascally wabbits!

Thanks for the tutorial! Couple of questions. Where do you find that tape, and what kind of wax are you using on the roots? Grafting wax perhaps? I would assume parifine would be too hot for tender roots in it's melted state! Thank you, Lee

Rob, it intrigues me, how you can actually figure out which variety it is. Do you have access to DNA testing, or is it just knowing the natives characteristics that you go by? I may actually learn something if I hang around long enough! lol

Speaking of bats, I have a rather funny story to tell on myself. Was walking through a part of my vineyard with verona vines that had ripening clusters on them last summer. One bunch looked kinda funny, as I was getting my bifocals right as I reached for it, to look closer. The bunch came...

Bobby, are you still looking for seeds? I have quite a few bunches that were left behind this past season, and are still hanging on the vines. I would think that nature would have stratified them, hanging in the cold weather. These are Norton/cynthiana vines, but I have no idea if you can...

I've got quite a bunch of norton vines, and my trunks look just like yours in the pics. I had a bumper crop this year and no sign of trouble. I lost one vine last fall, after the spraying incident, so I assumed that was what caused it. Wish I could be of more help.

What few verona of the first planting that survived the spraying last year were set back so bad that I only left a few bunches on. My frontenac was ready, so I just picked the few bunches of verona with them. Nice sized grapes, nice color and the brix on mine was 24. Wish I could have had...

I've kept vines in containers through the winter three different times. It worked out alright, but the container needs to be pretty good sized. I used protein tubs that they supplement cattle with, and then cut the tub off the rootball when I planted them. Moved them into the unheated garage...

Villa Vino, It was someone elses pic your refering to, I can't get a pic to post on this forum. A computer whizz I'm not! When my spray incident took place, The airplane doing the spraying banked and turned right over my vineyard. I saw him do it. When I started seeing symptoms, I contacted...

Yes it is! I had a spraying incedent a year ago last spring where a bunch of my vines got drift of toredon and 24D mixture. I ended up losing a number of vines, but of the ones I thought were lost, about half have came back up from the ground. Some have grown out a lot, while others are still...

The verona that I mentioned above is starting new growth coming out of the ground. No spraying, nothing that I can come up with for a reason this vine did that! Weird!

When I sent my bride to get it, I wrote down the Zeta Cypermethrin, and told her to only get that. Glad that was what I got. And yes on the acid! I have had several vints from my frontenacs now, and last year I let them hang till I was getting a fair bit of rasined fruit, but was pleased with...

Well I doused the JB with sevin as recommended, and must have got an extremely good kill, as I haven't seen one since. Been patroling the vines two to three times a day, and zero JB's! The frontenacs have been netted for a couple weeks now, and checked the brix yesterday, was up to 21 already...

I had a second year verona vine that wilted, then collasped and died, and have no clue what happened. Was growed out, about five feet tall, training to twc trellis, and it all happened within about four days. Was not lower than the other vines that are all doing well. Frustrating, to say the...

I've never had any issues with the wine, just makes an ugly berry, that won't make as much juice as normal. I must have had just a little bit off of one of the many boomers that have rolled through here this year, as I have found just a few damaged berries just the last few days.

Never have seen a green June beetle around here. June bugs that I have seen are brown, both large and small ones, and are active at night at the first of summer, usually in May. Haven't seen a June bug in two months here. The link that Hitchiker had in his post, made no distinction of a large...

School me on JB. We have always had big JB's that are around when fruit and berries get ripe. They are big shiney green and brown colored, a bit larger than the big brown june bugs that come out in the spring. I understand the ones that have invaded this country a number of years back are a...