The Organic Backyard Vineyard: A Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Your Own Grapes Paperback – June 12, 2012

I am interested in developing my 10 acre pasture into a real vineyard. First, I intend to put in a test plot and see what if I have what it takes. This book is exactly the right tool to get started and avoid ripping it all out later. In particular, the layout of vineyard spacing and dimensions is very good and gives lots of options. I can take the most conservative approach for the test plot and optimize in future plantings.I also liked the year by year maintenance program. If you follow this book, I have no doubt your vineyard will look exactly like a professional did it all, which is what I want. This was an outstanding purchase and a shame I can't give it move stars.

This book in very concise and informative. It shares info on many different varieties and very specific info on areas of growing and the cultural aspects of vinting and developing a high quality product, which is such a very important aspect of being a vintner. Books like this are very valuable~worth their weight in gold!!~John McCowan of Rancho Palos Verdes, Ca.

Really good info. Covers all the areas of grape growing and then some. I recommend this book. The only drawback is it is not up to date enough to cover the latest varieties of wine grapes like Marquette, La Crescent, etc. Hopefully the writers will publish a new edition. Great book!

A fantastic book on grapes and their proper care. I haven't really read any other books, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I would highly recommend this book!!!

Excellent and thoroughly understandable book of putting together your own backyard vineyard. After reading the book twice, I’m now ready to actually do one. Thank you.

Glad I purchased this book. I was doing some things incorrectly and now looking to start doing things correctly. Very insightful on grape growth habits.

Appears to be a very complete book on Vineyards, it seems to be right on the information. I am intending to start a vineyard this next year, so I have purchased two other books on the subject and glean the collective information from all three. Ask me again in four years, I'll either praise it or burn it by then.

This book is okay. I live in the Midwest, and this book seems geared towards folks growing grapes in more temperate climates. (I sort of anticipated this would be the case when I bought it, though.) I primarily purchased this book expecting to see comprehensive information on training methods. Surprisingly, I found more information on grape training methods from a different book on pruning and training plants, generally (which is sort of a shock, given that grapes comprise maybe eight or nine, not all, of the pages of that other book). Regardless, this book nevertheless is useful for other purposes, such as providing tips and guidance on placement of plants, creating support systems/trellises, watering methods, dealing with weeds organically, soil preparation, etc.The name of this book is a little deceptive. Many of the images and directions in this book depict growing grapes in a much larger area than I presume many people have available in their "backyard" (at least those who live in a city -- not sure if folks who live in more rural areas call the expansive stretches of land around them a "backyard," but I'm open to being wrong on that). Not that these methods aren't scaleable, though, to a smaller area. Just FYI.