1.   Prune grape vines before the sap begins to flow again by cutting all side shoots back to one or two buds.

2.   Behind the blackberry bushes and grape vines are apple, peach and pear trees.

3.   A midwinter visit found the rows and rows of grape vines none too photogenic, but that will change in April and May.

4.   After all, I helped gather hundreds of scraggly grape vine cuttings last January from the frozen grounds of a Virginia vineyard after its winter pruning.

5.   But the Warm Temperate Biome, which includes everything from corn to cork plants, lemon trees to tobacco, cotton to grape vines, was rather spotty.

6.   Daddy often teased them about being the root structure of the most efficient church grape vine in south Florida.

7.   Grape vines cling to lines tied overhead.

8.   Ironically, the area of New York with the most grape vines has the fewest wineries.

9.   Kamas and others suggest a key to slowing or stopping the disease is determining which plants harbor the strain of bacteria that infects grape vines.

10.   Kira dashes to an oak tree, sniffs the roots, moves on to take a whiff beneath a heavily laden grape vine, but quickly loses interest.