Time to Hill-Up your Grapevines is NOW! Winter injury is a crucial limiting factor to wine grape production in the New Jersey. Following the harsh winter of 2013-14, almost 85% of vineyards reported various degrees of cold damage. Often, the cold injury results in the development of Crown gall disease, which causes gall formation around […]
Hilling-Up to Prevent Winter Injury in Vineyards
By: Hemant Gohil, Gloucester County Agricultural Agent; Daniel Ward, Extension Specialist in Pomology; Peter Nitzsche, Morris County Agricultural Agent; Gary C. Pavlis, Atlantic County Agricultural Agent. Cooperative Extension of Rutgers University. Preventing Grapevine Winter Injury: Hilling-Up Shortly after Harvest Winter injury is the single most limiting factor to grape production in the Northern United States. […]
Assessing Winter Cold Injury in NJ Vineyards
2013-14 and 2014-15 Winter Injury Survey By: Hemant Gohil and Daniel Ward Following the very low temperatures during the winters of 2013-14 and 2014-15, many vineyards experienced cold damage to their grape vines. Rutgers New Jersey Center for Wine Research and Education (NJCWRE) conducted a survey of NJ vineyards in spring of 2016 to assess […]
Outstanding Turnout at Pruning Workshop
Nearly 50 Participants Attend the 2016 Pruning Workshop Presented by: Gary Pavlis, Dan Ward, and Hemant Gohil, Rutgers University Summary On Wednesday, February 17, 2016, the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station held a pruning workshop at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Bridgeton, New Jersey. From expecting 15-20 attendees, the workshop ended […]