I've grown all my vines from cuttings and for the most part have had very good success. Where I've had difficulty with cuttings has ...

We're training the vines up to a 5 foot fruit wire in 2010. So far it appears the winter cold is not as much as an issue as early fall f...

It has been a while since I've posted a blog but have to talk about a wine I recently tried. It came from Southend Farm Vineyard in BC ...

The experimental vineyard got frost on October 1st (-1.7c) and this ended the growing season. Actually, as all the berry cluster we kept th...

Photo of Unirrigated Leon Millot, August 9, 2009 I read about a few interesting studies that had been done that measured the amount of mois...

Photo: Typically sunny summer day In the summer we get great sun at this location with few clouds during the day and sometimes a late aftern...

Photo Leon Millot with 9 feet of growth this year trained to fruiting wire The vineyards in France do not irrigate their grape vines and the...

Photo: data logger placement. The year started off quite cool the last good frost was on May 9 th at -1.7 c. The Leon Millot planted in f...

Photo cuttings, propegation trays and heat mat We looked for varieties that are easy to grow, relatively cold hardy, would consistently r...

In the spring of 2008 we cleared a small area of land to use as a test spot. The land was pretty much all forested so we had to cut the tre...