Installing Our Fruiting Wire

Our vines have been growing, growing, growing, so it was time to install our fruiting wire. With almost all of the lineposts in, we put the spinning jenny in the back of our trailer and secured one end of the wire on the endpost. My husband and I took turns driving the tractor as one of us strung the line along the linepost. It took us 2 days to string the fruiting wire on the lineposts. Now that we are down to the last few rows of line posts to pound, after we finish a row, we string the fruiting wire on the newly installed lineposts.

The plants, mainly Chenin Blanc that had a decent cane from the previous year, were already sending out healthy looking shoots. Many of the shoots have flower clusters and these are the plants that concerned us and motivated us to string our fruiting wire. Happy vine, puts us on cloud nine!