Update on Test Vineyard

Sweat equity only goes so far. The progress on the test vineyard is slow but steady. The trenches have been filled and the weeds have taken over, but the gash where the tile was laid is still apparent. Check out what it looked like this winter.
We hired a rock splitter to make smaller boulders from several 40,000 pound boulders so that they too can be buried in the fall. From what we can tell, during the winter, these buried boulders erupt in the spring to give a bumper crop of baseball sized rocks.
We'll visit some nurseries this fall to get an idea of what they have in stock. This is not what is recommended by UC Davis, but we'll be sure to see if they have the rootstock and scion we are interested in growing.