Grapes — for the table or the wine bottle — are a great plant for the landscape and for the not-so-attentive gardener. “You can abuse them,” says Contra Costa Master Gardener and grape expert Norm ...
An intensive, two-day course in vineyard irrigation will take place March 2-3 at Konocti Harbor Resort in Kelseyville. Stuart Styles, director of irrigation training and research at Cal Poly, San Luis ...
It's easy to breeze past Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino vineyards and see just another iconographic California landscape -- ah, Wine Country -- but there's more to those neatly spaced rows of grapevines.
Reinier van der Lee had a problem. In rainy, verdant 2010, Van der Lee and his wife, Monique, purchased a distressed vineyard in Temecula. Their plan was to nurse the neglected vines back to health ...
For years, I took the New World's thirst for vineyard irrigation for granted. I believed what I was told: Napa Valley was a desert and needed its 100 to 200 gallons of water per vine per season. I ...
Santa Rosa officials Thursday were lukewarm to a proposal by vintner Jess Jackson to join in a partnership for a $3.6 million vineyard irrigation project, saying Jackson would have to pay for more of ...
Grapes — for the table or the wine bottle — are a great plant for the landscape and for the not-so-attentive gardener. “You can abuse them,” says Contra Costa Master Gardener and grape expert Norm ...