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Almost new (ok less than a year old) Dispensamatic Bottle Matic label applicator. We purchased in January and have been using it for this most recent bottling season. Works very well and once you get it dialed in you can label a lot of bottles. Why are we selling? We were unexpectedly offered...

Not sure what time of day you took these but to me it looks a bit shady. Grapes like sunshine and a lot of it...full sun is best. The only helpful thing to do with the big white oak is to make barrels out of it and take the remaining wood and put in your fireplace to keep warm in the winter...

Snow flurries here again today....sheez record low last Wednesday, then record high 87 on Saturday, and back in the 30s Sunday through today...starting to wonder if we saw our summer already...

And its snowing a little yet again this evening.....sighhhh:snw

Not at all unusual for these and several other varieties. The cause is apical dominance. Depending on the vigor of your site you can do 2 things to fix this. Both require new cordons. Very vigorous site: Encourage and retain a number of canes near the head of the vine that will make good...

If you are in the East last year was a terrible year for Downy. If you haven't used your full dose of Manzate for teh year by then I guess it would be effective. You could also do a another post harvest Captan spray...

What about cutting the entire mess off and grafting some new buds to the trunk?

4 more inches of Spring this morning....yeah me!

Too early to plant if you are in NJ.....caution!!! Wait till April 15.

Yes made in PA but if your wine is called Cabernet Sauvignon you had better be using "American" as the Appellation of Origin.

Hi Z, I misunderstood your question, you are correct the 350 mile limit had been in effect long before, then the court ruling basically threw it out but it remained in the actual code, The legislature in its infinite wisdom kept it in there when they rewrote the law in 2016. So of course the...

Starting to see a little sap run in the Chardonnay and Pinot. Snow is down to just a few dwindling piles and melting fast tonight.

Hi Z, In the good ol peoples republic of Pennsylvania we have a wealth of legalese to navigate... Act 39 is a piece of legislation that updates the Liquor laws in Pennsylvania, passed in August 2016. It was also quickly amended by Act 166 later that year to fix some errors. The Pennsylvania...

What Balatonwine said times 2... It sounds like you are an extreme novice at growing grapes, so better to start with a couple rows of hybrids to get your feet wet. You need to regularly spray fungicides, prune, shoot thin, tuck canes, leaf pull, drop fruit, spray for Japanese Beetles, and now...

Looks the same on this side of the Delaware River too....14" of spring covering everything.....

Pretty much how I do it however its in a crate and can be moved.

Technical spec info direct from the manufacturer says the cages can be stacked 4 high fully loaded and will be stable. The top half of the front gate can be opened and structural integrity will be maintained...

When I stack I will only be going a total to two cages...three or four would scare the heck out of me from a lateral stability issue. I suppose if you stacked them in columns and then next to one another it would be ok as that would add to the lateral stability.......

As far as I understand it they can be stacked one on top of the other fully loaded. I have yet to try it but am getting close as space is becoming a premium. They are reinforced in the right spots to be stackable...going to try it sooner or later...

Stacking bottles for bulk storage and aging is a fun little exercise. We are currently using steel wire cages from U-Line that can hold up to 4000 lbs and are stackable. We can get about 800 bottles in a cage that is 48"Lx40"Wx42"H. Has anyone come up with any other innovative methods of...