The Vineyard: Six Week Performance Appraisal

It has been six weeks since the crew from Mudd Vineyards came to plant our tall vines. When they left in May, our field of dreams looked like a field of sticks.

At the six week mark, our vines are exceeding our expectations:

Our vines appear to be thriving in spite of the fact that they are in the hands of viticultural innocents. For our self appraisal, the next time we put in a vineyard, we will do more derocking before hand, put in the pencil rods as soon as the vines are in and be more prepared for replanting activities. We have more rocks to remove and the green that is in the vineyard alleys are all weeds and while we can convince ourselves that for the moment, they are helping in erosion control, we know that we must put in a cover crop!
Waiting in the wings are the trellis materials including the locust endposts sitting in yet another pile.