This page provides links to information on vineyard soil health, soil analysis, salinity, management practices to improve soil structure and grapevine nutrition.
SOIL HEALTH
- What is soil health? (AWRI fact sheet)
- Assessing soil health in a vineyard (AWRI fact sheet)
- Wine Australia’s soil health resources
- Soil health checklist – what to measure to assess soil health (AWRI webinar 28 November 2019)
- Soil health (AWRI webinar 20 August 2015)
- Vineyard management practices to improve soil health (AWRI fact sheet)
- Improving soils 1 (Viticare on farm trial manual)
- Improving soils 2 (Viticare on farm trial manual)
SOIL ANALYSIS
- Measuring the infiltration rate of water into soil using the ring infiltrometer method (AWRI fact sheet)
- Measuring organic carbon in soil (AWRI factsheet)
- Ask the AWRI: Soil analysis and soil carbon: what should you be looking for when getting your soil tested? (PDF article)
- Optimising the management of soils and organic matter (AWRI webinar 23 September 2016)
- A method for examining grapevine root systems (AWRI fact sheet)
- Soil moisture monitoring (AWRI fact sheet)
- Measuring soil pH (AWRI fact sheet)
- Measuring soil porosity (AWRI fact sheet)
- Taking soil samples (AWRI factsheet)
- Measuring soil strength (AWRI factsheet)
- A method for assessing soil structure (AWRI fact sheet)
- Managing soil structure in established vineyards (AWRI webinar 19 October 2017)
- Soil profiling (Viticare on farm trial manual)
SALINITY
- Measuring soil salinity (AWRI fact sheet)
- Wine Australia’s salinity resources
- Salinity – practical information for growers (AWRI webinar 8 November 2018)
- Ask the AWRI: Salt in grapes and wine a common issue (PDF article)
- Salinity management interpretation guide – A guide for the wine grape industry – SA Central (PDF download)
MULCH
- Griffith grape marc mulch trial (AWRI presentation July 2012)
- Ask the AWRI: Using composted grape marc in the vineyard (PDF article)
NUTRITION
- Nitrogen fertilisation (AWRI fact sheet)
- Phosphorus fertilisation (AWRI fact sheet)
- Potassium fertilisation (AWRI fact sheet)
- Trace elements (AWRI fact sheet)
- Petiole analysis (AWRI fact sheet)
- Soil acidification (AWRI fact sheet)
- Liming (AWRI fact sheet)
- Ask the AWRI: What are the benefits of nutritional analysis and how do I get the most from the results? (PDF article)
- Nutrition RTP workshop – Managing grapevine nutrition in a changing environment
- Vine nutrition (Viticare on farm trial manual)
BUNCH STEM NECROSIS