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 ...

The type of grape you grow depends on your climate and your taste. Are you looking for dessert grapes? Or perhaps you want to experiment with wine making, in which case the variety you choose will ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. What is one of the most widely grown fruits in the ...

In this occasional series, The Chronicle's wine editor, Jon Bonné, teams with winemakers for an urban viticulture experiment in downtown San Francisco. Throughout the season, he'll report on his ...

Grapes rarely need to be fertilized, but it can take two to four years to establish vines for fruit production. (Torsten Kjellstrand/2010) Rainy as it is, spring has sprung and that means gardening ...

I planted some muscadine grape vines a couple of years ago. Is it too late to prune them now? How about fertilizing them? Not to worry, this is prime season for pruning your grape vines. The ...

Join me on an incredible journey "From Fruit to Vine" as I share my experience of growing a grape vine from a simple fruit. This video features a satisfying time-lapse that captures every stage of ...

Last year I planted a ‘Black Hamburg’ vine (also knows as ‘Schiava Grossa’) outside in my garden. I say I planted it outside but all of it other than the roots and a few inches of stem is in fact ...

SANTA CRUZ — Since the late 1700s, when priests on the edge of the Spanish empire struggled to grow grapes behind Santa Cruz Mission, to today, when area winemakers are recognized the world over, ...