Marinades from raw meat, poultry or seafood should not be applied to cooked food unless those marinades have been boiled first for at least one minute. That's because bacteria that cause foodborne illness may have transferred into the marinade from the raw meat. The previous owner of the house we bought this winter had planted grapes. We didn't do much with them this spring but understand that grapes need a lot of pruning. You can, but a jungle will soon develop and fruit production and quality will drop off, says Danny Barney, University of Idaho extension horticulturist.
Grapes simply require more pruning than any other temperate fruit.
In fact, each year in late winter or early spring, before new growth starts, you should remove about 90 percent of the wood that grew the preceding summer. Since it's already too late for dormant pruning, you can still remove all dead wood and thin out the canes and new shoots. Remove all suckers and shoots between the ground and the head of the vine, head back new shoots so they don't touch the ground and plan on doing some extensive pruning next spring.