How To Prune Grapes - Summer Care


How To Prune Grapes - Summer Care
Summer pruning helps control vigorous growth, improve fruit quality, and keep your grapevines healthy and productive throughout the growing season.
When Grapes Are Ready to Harvest: A Guide to Determining Ripeness


When Grapes Are Ready to Harvest: A Guide to Determining Ripeness
Harvesting grapes at the right time is crucial for achieving optimal flavor, sugar content, and overall quality. Grapes can be used for fresh eating, winemaking, or cooking, and each purpose may have slightly different ripeness criteria. Here’s a comprehensive guide on when grapes are ready to be harvested.
Summer Pruning for Everbearing Berry Plants: A Guide


Summer Pruning for Everbearing Berry Plants: A Guide
Pruning is an essential practice for maintaining healthy and productive everbearing berry plants, such as raspberries and strawberries. Summer pruning, in particular, helps to manage plant growth, encourages more fruit production, and improves air circulation, which reduces the risk of disease. Here's how to properly prune your everbearing berry plants during the summer months.
Summer Black Berry Pruning


Summer Black Berry Pruning
Pruning blackberries in the summer is an essential task for maintaining healthy, productive plants. Summer pruning helps manage the growth of the canes, encourages better fruit production, and reduces disease. Here’s a comprehensive guide on why, when, and how to prune blackberries in the summer.
How to Plant Bare-Root Plants


How to Plant Bare-Root Plants
By definition, bare-root plants are not grown in a pot and will not have any soil around their roots – hence the name "bare root". Our bare-root plants are shipped dormant, which helps them to transplant well and experience less transpiration (water loss) immediately after planting.
How to Plant Potted Plants


How to Plant Potted Plants
Potted plants are greenhouse-grown and more tender than their bare-root counterparts. When your plant arrives, very carefully remove it from the packaging. It should arrive moist but will need a drink when it arrives at your home. Be sure the soil is completely moist.
Best Fruits for Partial Shade


Best Fruits for Partial Shade
Let’s face it, as much as we might all desire several acres of blazing sunlight to grow everything under the full face of the sun, many of us live in suburban or urban environments that present a challenge when we want to grow our own food.
How to Plant Blackberries


How to Plant Blackberries
Blackberry plants are a rewarding way to turn your yard into an edible landscape. Learn how easy it is to plant blackberries and what you need for success.
Growing Seedless Grapes


Growing Seedless Grapes
Seedless grapes are easy to grow and are healthy, ready-to-eat snacks. Learn what makes grapes seedless, and get expert tips so you can grow great seedless grapes.
Growing Muscadine Grapes


Growing Muscadine Grapes
Muscadine grapes are hands-down favorites for home gardeners in warm climates. Follow these tips and enjoy success with growing muscadine grapes.
Preserving Blackberries in Alcohol


Preserving Blackberries in Alcohol
Preserving blackberries in alcohol for an edible cocktail high in antioxidants. Make your own bachelor jam and serve a 'Sassy Russian' at your next party.
Berry Plants: How Many Years Until Fruit?


Berry Plants: How Many Years Until Fruit?
Growing your own berry plants is a rewarding endeavor. Find out how many years it takes to yield your first berry harvest. It may be sooner than you think.
Planting Primocanes


Planting Primocanes
Properly planting and pruning primocanes (blackberries and raspberries) encourages multiple harvests. With this routine care, they can fruit for decades!