Tips and tricks it took to have our most successful harvest of the best tasting red grape we grow. For years animals were steeling the homegrown grapes before we picked them. We finally outsmarted all the orchard pests.
Coastal Southern California, sunset zone 22, is generally not considered an ideal grape growing climate. Nevertheless, we have had great success with a few grape varieties over the last decade and a half. Between my friend across the street and I, we have grown Black Monuka, Fantasy, Glendora, Niabell, Eastern Concord, Canadice, Flame, Perlette, Interlaken, Einset, Marquis, Neptune, NY47616, and Jupiter. More than once during a shift at the CRFG booth at the Green Scene I get asked to recommend…