"An excellent complement to this book (The Grape Grower) is Lon Romboug’s video series on the proper pruning and training of grapevines. " -J. Lerner, Washington Post, Dec. 13, 2008.

An adjunct to the award winning book, THE GRAPE GROWER, this two video set takes you step-by-step to teach you how to prune dormant grape vines in any situation. The first video teaches the basic methods, tells which works best for your grapes, AND gives the principles behind the methods. Presented in "hands-on" style by Lon Rombough, author of The Grape Grower, you'll see how new and old vines are handled during pruning, and you'll learn tricks and tips to insure regular crops of the best quality fruit the vine is able to produce. This video covers the basics of pruning - how to prune to spurs or to canes, and how and why to choose one system over another. Once you understand that, you know how to train your vines to suit any situation, trellis, or climate. All training systems are based either on pruning the vine to spurs on old wood, such as cordon trained or head trained vines, or to canes, such as the old Kniffen system. All systems use variations and combinations of these two methods. Once you know these basics and how they work, you'll be able to adjust any vine to any given situation. Vine too vigorous? Leave more buds to reduce the vigor. Spur with low vigor? Prune to rejuvenate it. Adjust crop levels by pruning, keep the vine bearing regular crops of good quality instead of flipping between high and low crops, etc. Once you know this, you can look at a training method and understand it and how to prune your vines in that way. The second DVD includes material on how to use "two step" pruning to give you additional frost protection, how to use layering to get new vines into production in the shortest time possible, and beautiful samples of what YOUR grapes can look like when they are properly pruned.