Winchester received a series of rains from 2:20 PM yesterday (5/22/10), and the relative humidity stayed high (>90%) until 9:20 AM. Thus, we had about 19 hours of wetness with… Read more
I thought the forecast was saying rains from Tuesday, but I guess I didn’t read it right. Now two low pressure systems are coming back to back and we are… Read more
Thank you very much for those of you came to the vineyard meeting at Horton. If you could not make to the meeting or could not receive the hand out,… Read more
We’ll have a central VA vineyard meeting tomorrow at Horton Vineyard from 11AM. Tony and I will be presenting seasonal reminders on the pest management and viticulture tips. If you… Read more
There will be an orchard meeting at Winchester AREC on 5/6/10 from 6pm. The reason I’m posting here is because one of the speakers is Dr. Jeff Derr from Virginia… Read more
We are having such a nice weather lately. I think most of you are in the field preparing for the up coming season. Our Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon are breeding… Read more
I wish you and your family a Happy New Year, and I wish this season to be a good one for everybody. Although not as much as I do during… Read more
I think this will be the last meetings for the season. One is at Koru farm in Stuart, VA (Sept. 30th – TOMORROW!). Caryl and Greg Talcott has been kind… Read more
(A graft union infected by fungal organism(s)) We had a very nice workshop this Monday. Now everybody become experts of various trunk diseases! As Philippe discussed, most of fungal pathogens… Read more
We will have Virginia Vineyards Association’s summer technical meeting at Jefferson vineyards on August 17th (this Monday). Dr. Philippe Rolshausen and Lucie Morton will be talking about trunk diseases. I… Read more