UGA Extension Viticulture Blog

Reminder – grower roundtable meeting on November 1st (NEXT Wednesday)

Oct 26, 2017 | Written by

We have had only a handful of registrants for the grower roundtable meeting scheduled for next Wednesday, November 1 at Kaya Vineyard and Winery.  This meeting will start at 10 AM. Details can be found in a previous post: http://site.extension.uga.edu/viticulture/2017/10/post-harvest-roundtable-meeting-scheduled-for-november-1-2017/ Maybe only a handful of people are interested in attending…
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Look for frost early next week

Oct 25, 2017 | Written by

The National Weather Service office in Peachtree City has put out a preliminary frost/freeze warning for Monday morning. You can follow more information at http://www.weather.gov/ffc/. If you are in far northeastern Georgia, then you are actually in the Greenville-Spartanburg NWS office’s region and you can get information from them at http://www.weather.gov/gsp/. If…
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Crown Gall Symptoms

Oct 23, 2017 | Written by

Crown gall can sometimes be confused with either leaf roll virus or Pierce’s disease. In general, if a plant is a completely brilliant red, this is likely caused by crown gall or some trunk injury.  Pierce’s disease and leaf roll viruses can also have reddened leaves or leaf margins, so…
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Where to get forecasts for frost

Oct 20, 2017 | Written by

In a blog post earlier this week I provided some links to sources of information on historical frost dates across the country. Today I want to provide you with some links to help you find current forecasts for frost.  It looks like to me that we are likely to see…
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Wine and weather in the news

Oct 20, 2017 | Written by

For those of you who follow national and international trends in wine grapes and wine production, you may be interested in some recent articles I have seen on the impacts of weather on wine production both here in the US and abroad. One of the biggest stories, of course, has…
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Another warm and dry winter may be in the offing

Oct 19, 2017 | Written by

The latest outlook for winter is now available from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Short answer: warmer and drier than usual conditions are more likely than usual due to the impending La Niña. I break it down in my blog post at http://site.extension.uga.edu/climate/2017/10/latest-climate-outlook-shows-impact-from-la-nina/.  
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Vineyard “chores” list from Southern Region Small Fruits Consortium Newsletter

Oct 19, 2017 | Written by

I write a column in the Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium’s quarterly newsletter entitled “Small Fruit News”. The column is a “grape chores list” to complement the caneberry and strawberry chores lists contained in the newsletter. This chores list may contain some information that is valuable to blog readers, so…
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2017 North Georgia Wine Grape Season Wrap Up

Oct 18, 2017 | Written by

It has been a successful first research season in the vineyards of North Georgia. The UGA Extension Viticulture Team finished harvesting their last research plots of the season two weeks ago.  As we reflect on this past season, we can now see that it was a race from the start. …
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