Several growers contacted me recently to discuss about disease management after recent frost events. Here are my take on it. 1) If you have some damages on your shoots/buds.As usual,… Read more
As with many other places in the VA, we were suffering from frost damages. We experienced several near freezing events this year, and most notably, a few hours of 25F… Read more
Our 7-yr old Chardonnay vines are in bud swell stage, and others are tagging along. It looks like we will see bud break in a week or two. One of… Read more
Thanks again for those of you who were able to attend IPM workshops. I hope you enjoyed the meetings, and if you have any suggestions or comments, please do not… Read more
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