In the wake of the Montecito mudslide, a Los Olivos winemaker is re-using soil from the disaster as a natural fertilizer for some of the grape plants on his vineyard. “We are combining the soil from ...

Whether you are growing wine grapes or table grapes, it’s a good idea in our climate to delay the final pruning until you are confident that freezing, dry and windy weather has passed. The reason for ...

Delay pruning your grapevines a little bit longer. You can cut them back now, but hold off on their final pruning length until after March 1. The idea is to delay the final pruning of grapes as long ...