There are several extension activities in the next few weeks that you maybe interested in.1) IPM workshop at Early Mountain VineyardsThis will be a full day IPM workshop to cover… Read more
Here are handouts from my presentations from the VVA meeting. 1) Slides from “Interactive Grape Disease Management Workshop”2) Results from the “planning session”. Please note that this is the results… Read more
Upcoming meetings: A. Virginia Cooperative Extension and Virginia Tech will offer pruning workshops in Central/Southern Virginia (Amherst) and Northern Virginia (Winchester) this January. Beginning grape growers and experienced grape growers… Read more
Please see the message below from Dr. Sara Spayd, who is an extension viticulture specialist at NCSU. The information is probably more applicable to people in the southern VA, but… Read more
It was very nice to see you all at the beginner’s workshop held today at AHS AREC. Here are: 1) my presentation (Google drive will open) and 2) disease management… Read more
With this week’s precipitations that we (including many meteorologists) did not anticipated last week, some of you have contacted me to seek options for the late season application, especially for… Read more
I have heard from several growers that they are seeing downy mildew despite the fact that they have not seen much precipitations. It could happen because of the humidity, especially… Read more
Dr. Wayne Wilcox at Cornell University wrote an article on sour rot management on “Finger Lakes Vineyard Notes“. (The link will open a pdf file) Please check it out. Results… Read more
Now the season is wrapping up, and one of questions I get often is “when to spray what to protect your crop at the last stretch”. Unfortunately (as with everything… Read more
Some of our early cultivars such as Alandale is changing it color. It is just a matter of time to see other cultivar to enter phase of veraison. Hopefully, we… Read more