This has been the most useful guide on KZfaq for starting a vineyard. My wife and I will be putting in 200 vines this coming spring, so thank you for staying consistent with your uploads! You're an invaluable resource, my friend. Cheers!

Such a useful ‘bunch’ of videos, thank you for taking the time to document what you do, I purchased your book as a useful easy to find source of info /reference. I’m in the process of buying a house with some land and you have given me the confidence to go for it and plant a small vineyard. 🙏

My Grandfather used coal soot on the roses diluted in water. It stops black spot on the leaves. If you can still find this rare substance it might be worth a try.

It’s amazing how fast grapes grow. It wasn’t that long ago you had an empty field.

I can't thankyou enough for doing these videos, my grape vines in my small garden are well over grown, years old and never get great grapes, so your teaching is so helpful now I'm wondering do I cut everything bk and start again as my three grape vines have taken over my small garden with no grape for years xx

If you want to use wood - get it from Jackson they last 25 years minimum. I purchased some from Mole Valley and they only lasted five years.

Great advice and info for vine growing and very helpful. I suspect that the book will be the same which I've just ordered. Thank you.

Thanks again for your video. Always enjoyable and informative. I've got a small (120 vine) vineyard in North Carolina, USA. Canopy management and leaf plucking are a very important and very time consuming process. My vines rows run north to south putting the wall of grapes facing east and west. When I started in 2017 the common advice I received was, after flowering and cluster set, to pluck all leaves on the east side to expose the clusters entirely and then on the west facing side to pull only enough to leave 'dappled' sunlight. The last year or two many vineyards in my area (there's 75-100 commercial vineyards within an hour or so of me) have been changing their process to now doing complete leaf removal on BOTH sides. Definitely more work but I can see the benefits and now do that on my vines. I've not experienced any black rot or mold issues on an clusters in the last 2 seasons. Probably more dumb luck than anything.

Appreciate your hard work and positivity! Love the videos!

I’m eventually trying to boarder our field with cannon hall grapevines. Sadly a slow approach we bought two and took cuttings once they were big enough we now have 12 slowly gaining strength spreading out on the hillside and more to take cuttings from each year 👍🇬🇬

Доброго дня! У цьому відео ви на нових насаженнях молоді пагони винограду ложити і прикріплюєте до дроту. Я дивлюсь ваші відео і знаю, що на плодоношення ви лишаєте минулорічні гілки, а ті що були рукавами обрізаєте. В мене невеликий виноградник трошки більше 30 молодих кущів. З яких лише 2 вже плодоносят. І я виховую свої молоді кущі так щоб нові гілки росли вверх. А ви їх положоли горизонтально. Хоч вони вже мали грона. такий прийом в мене призводить до сильного розвитку пасинків. Поясніть мені будьласка може я щось роблю не правильно. Дуже дякую!