No Till Vineyards

At Youngberg Hill, located in the heart of Oregon wine country, we believe in not tilling the ground to create the most robust ecosystem and health of the soil. Listen to our wine grower Wayne Bailey explaining the details.

[@springman1740]

When weed whacking around the vines are you worried about injuring the trunk?

[@TL50-r9f]

purple hairy vetch, produces nitrogen in the soil and keeps growing in my perennial garden.

[@Nikolasmar]

How do you plant the seeds can you show in an other video

[@sinovackij1218]

Thanks Wayne! It's a total refreshment to hear somebody not tilling vineyard! I'm planing the same. Please send an update how is it going!

[@pilsplease7561]

Once established you never need to till, but you do prior to planting heavily.

[@oftin_wong]

Watering grapes leads to bigger grapes and bigger bunches

[@pilsplease7561]

Watering grapes leads to watered down grapes, split berries and poor quality grapes

[@oftin_wong]

@@pilsplease7561 that's "over watering" you are thinking of ....true it does lead to that But underwatering also has it's problems, it all depends on the type of climate you have in your area If you have heat waves with 35-40C everyday ...a vine holding 20-30 big bunches is going to need water everyday to hold the grapes It's no mystery

[@pilsplease7561]

@@oftin_wong Its best to dry farm and not water at all and let nature take its course for the premium wines you can water if your making cheap grocery story wines

[@oftin_wong]

@@pilsplease7561 it depends on where you are located and how much rainfall you get ...no rainfall,...no grow Surely you know this ? I mean are you are grape grower ? ..

[@pilsplease7561]

@@oftin_wong As a winemaker I will tell you get about 8-14 inches of rain in a good year and nobody waters vines. Its pretty much all dry farmed here. And temps in the summer get up to 90-100 Fahrenheit daily we don't water because it concentrates the flavors and aromas in the grapes, if we watered they would produce too much fruit and water down the flavors.