When deciding how to build a grape trellis, backyard systems with high angles achieve sunlight, airflow, and easy pruning. Growing grapes is easy, fun, and rewarding. A friend of mine once said that ...

Whether you want to make your own wine or have some tasty fruit, grapes are a good addition to your garden. Contra Costa master gardener Jim DeFrisco offers tips on backyard grape growing. Getting ...

For 40 years, the grape arbor in a Pen Argyl back yard has been a summer retreat for the Squillaro family and their friends. With a red, wooden picnic table and comfortable, white patio chairs ...

Grapes are a great backyard choice if you're seeking delicious juice, some wine to savor or snacks fresh from the vine. But look elsewhere if it's low maintenance or fast production that you want.

To get a backyard vineyard, you need plants that are tough, strong and able to live where the grapes can suffer — like the Front Range. With rollercoaster temperatures in spring, blasts of ...

Last fall, my brother purchased a home with a large, beautiful grape arbor surrounding the front yard. He picked buckets of small (1/4–3/8 inch) sweet green grapes and gave them to neighbors and ...

Doris Christenson (from left), Lahaina Restoration Foundation Head Groundskeeper Clifford Corniel and Pam McCabe plant new grapevines under the 50-year old arbor at Baldwin Home Museum in Lahaina.

For backyard viticulture, or grape growing, gardeners look mostly for low input, low maintenance grapes that serve two purposes. First to produce high quality fruit with little to no input and second ...