Since ancient times, grape arbors have graced gardens and supported vines producing grapes for the table and for wine production. The oldest known wine jar dates from between 5400 and 5000 B.C.E. in ...

Q. We have purchased a home which has a mature grape arbor (two varieties — trunks are three to four feet). When we first looked at the home last year both plants were heavily producing. We did not do ...

In deep summer now the grape vines are lush and dark green, beautiful, and with clusters of still unripe grapes hidden under the broad leaves. A couple of months from now the grapes will be ripe 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.

Fertilize established shade and fruit trees:with 1 pound of a slow-release 19-5-9 formulation for every inch of tree trunk diameter. Spread the fertilizer evenly under the drip zone of the tree, then ...

WARRIOR RUN —When you walk through Geraldine Wegrzynowicz’s backyard garden, where do you look first? A heavenly scent may attract your gaze upward to the grapes growing along an arbor. “Don’t they ...

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 ...