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I've had sluggish growth on quite a few vines this year too. I blame it on the lack of sun and warmth. It's been in the fortys more than it's been in the sixtys, with incessant rain, so the vines are waiting on some heat! We had two days a week ago that it got in the eightys, and I saw an...

About four or five years ago, I scored two dump truck loads of course sawdust from a nearby sawmill. A lot of it was from black walnut. I had absolutly no issues using it on all of my grapes over a couple of seasons. I tried a short row, before I went full bore on it. Wish I could get that...

What Johnd said. In sandy ground, they more than likely are toast. Young plants take a lot of care!

I had that happen a few years back. That's why they come equiped with secondary buds! I didn't get the crop that I usually did, but looking at the vines two monthes later, you would never know they froze out the first buds!

Only types of concord grapes that I'm aware of are white and red. Have raised red concord here in Ks for about 18 years now. Now is the time to be pruning back to your cordons. I spur prune mine, and take a lot of wood off every year. Have mine on a top wire cordon trellis. It would help to...

Was talking with a friend last weekend that runs a winery. He mentioned spraying oil on the vines to ****** bud break. I had never heard of that before, and when I asked more about it, he said just a light spray of a cooking oil. Anyone else ever heard of it? I'm not ready to spray my vines...

My garage isn't as warm as yours. I have overwintered grapes in pots in past winters, and I have that verona vine in there now. It gets well below freezing in there, but I haven't lost any in the past. That seven below night the other day was the coldest night here this year. Don't know when...

Yes, all types of wasps, even mud daubbers! What I have trouble with is they will bite the fruit and feed a bit on it, then go and do the same to another berry, and another.....then the flies move in and finish the job. Now there is a difference between a sucked out shell and a raisened berry...

Wasps are a real pita, especially when it is a warm fall. I have fought them for years, and try to eliminate all nests, but seems you always miss some. I found one, too late for my grapes, right under mu nose, but they didn't get a chance for a repeat performance! I have had bunches dry up on...

You must have better conditions where your at than I! It is three degrees right now at noon, central time, and the low tonight is forcast by the weather guessers to be -7! Nothing has even dreamt of pushing a bud yet this year! Coldest Feb I have seen in my 72 years!

I can't speak for petite pearl, but verona has hardly been out long enough for growers to be able to help you much. I had 26 vines that were two leaf being trained to trellis, when an airplane sprayed a pasture to the west of me. It outright killed three plants, and set the others back so bad...

I checked with my county extension agent, and they offered two soil tests a year.....free! You want anymore than two a year it comes out of your pocket, but the price wasn't that bad. They run the analysis with grapes in mind, and offered corrective action. Check with your county extension agent.

One thing I have found, since the age of the internet, is you can find justification for any idea you may have . I'll need a towel here in a bit, when I take my shower, but not for what you point out. You keep your ideas and I'm keeping mine! Have a good one.

Give me a break! I can tell you don't understand nature very well. Grasslands and the corn crop in the breadbasket of this great nation produce more oxygen than the trees do, but I'm sure you would never believe me! Do some research, it may surprise you. Trees on the prairie are a woody weed!

Update on the tree. Whacked it down, been spraying the growth with round up. Seems to be working, will just have to keep on it. That tree was shading three rows of frontenac and had to go. It is firewood for the stove now. I have two big mulberries that raise lots of fruit. The trouble is...

I have grown a verona plant in a protein tub this spring. and summer. Like you, it was an extra plant I didn't have room for. It has done better than all it's kin that were planted in the vineyard. After my spraying incident, I have lost quite a few vines, and now I have to figure out how to...

First, I am not one of your "idiots". I have been a trapper all my life, and know how to deal with these problems. All racoons are DOA on site, and yes I do it humanly. Probably much more so than you would. Have a good day!

There is a reason I live in Ks! Also trapping ***** is what I do....all winter long. I can't imagine not being able to kill a critter that is doing damage on your property! Price you pay for living in a liberal environment, I guess. Just what everyone needs.....more goverment!

Dennis, I've had concord vines for about fifteen years, and while a lot of people look down their nose at concord, it makes a very nice, fruity dry wine. The truly nice thing about them is that they are big producers, easy to care for and make a decent wine. Most people think of concord only...

Well I thought I'd bring you up to speed on my damage. I have two two leaf verona vines that are toast, and expect to prolly lose most of the rest. It has been about five weeks since the spraying, and my older concord and cataba vines look bad. One vine in the middle of my nortons is dead...