You certainly can't count your chickens before they hatch - especially so as it relates to predicting crop yeild and quality at the begi...

So following the warmest April ever and one of the warmest monthes of May we have returned to normal heat towards the end of June but even c...

So this spring we planted just over 2100 row feet of Leon Millot and Marechal Foch vines.  The vines come as dormant rooted vines and before...

  So we have a short row of sovereign ruby vines to see how they grow and to see just what kind of grape and juice they produce.  Have to...

So we have been growing the vines at Arrow Lakes Vineyard with the very least amount of water we can.  We tried zero irrigation and wanted t...

So we were way ahead at the beginning of May with bud break 2-3 weeks early and that trend has carried on through to grape flowering bloom. ...

So I wrote in a previous blog that I leave extra buds when we do the first pruning just in case the winter was harsh and killed off many of ...

Since weve been growing grapes at Arrow Lakes Vineyard the bud break usually happens 14-21 days into May.  So what happens is the earliest v...

I mentioned in a previous post that this spring has been really warm.  We saw that the vines were already starting to push with scale cr...

So its hard not to talk about growing grapes when you are passionate about that kind of thing.  So when a teacher asked if I could provide a...