Grape Grower (eBook)

Lon Rombough (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2002
304 Seiten
Chelsea Green Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60358-082-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Grapes are the most popular and widely grown fruit in the world. From the tropics to Alaska, grapes will grow successfully in almost every climate. Whether you raise them for fresh eating, or for making wine, juice, or jellies and preserves, the right grapes will reward you with abundant crops for a modest investment of time and effort.Now for the first time comes a book for grape growers who wish to use organic growing methods to raise healthy, thriving vineyards in the backyard or on a small commercial scale. The Grape Grower distills the broad knowledge and long-time personal experience of Lon Rombough, one of North America's foremost authorities on viticulture.From finding and preparing the right site for your vineyard to training, trellising, and pruning vines to growing new grapes from seeds and cuttings, The Grape Grower offers thorough and accessible information on all the basics. The chapters on grape species, varieties, and hybrids are alone worth the price of a college course in viticulture. Technical information on the major (and minor) insect pests and diseases that affect grapes, as well as their organic controls, makes this book an invaluable reference that readers will turn to again and again.Rombaugh also provides a wealth of information on hardy but little-known grapes that are native to North America, and on a wide range of topics, including:pruning neglected or overgrown vinesgrowing grapes on arbors and in greenhousescontrolling animal pests in the vineyardbunch grapes and muscadine grapes for the Southwinter protection, and how to increase the hardiness of grapescreating your own new varieties

Inhalt

Foreword: Seed Matters / Roger B. Swain

1. Structure of the Vine

2. Getting Started: Site, Soil, and Planting

3. Pruning and Training

4. Growing Grapes Organically

5. Diseases of Grapes

6. Insects of Grapes

7. Animal and Bird Pests

8. Propagation

9. Rootstocks

10. Varieties

11. Grape Species

12. Grapes in Cold Climates and the Tropics

13. Breeding Grapes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2002
• Vorwort: Roger B. Swain
• Zusatzinfo: Black and white, color photos and illustrations
• Verlagsort: White River Junction
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: american fruit • backyard grape vines • From Vines to Wines • grapes native to North America • grape species and varieties • growing fruit • growing grapes in greenhouses • growing grapes on arbors • growing grapes organically • how to grow healthy grape vines • how to grow thriving vineyards • how to prune grape vines • How to start a vineyard • nafex • North American • north american fruit • pests and diseases that affect grapes • small commercial scale vineyard • training vines to grow grapes • trellising vines for grape growing • viticulture
• ISBN-10: 1-60358-082-4 / 1603580824
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-082-3 / 9781603580823