Installing Our Trellis System

On July 25th, we pounded in the last of our line posts and it felt to us as if we had pounded in the golden spike. Just as a reminder, here we were in November 25, 2013 with all of our trellis material in hand:

That photo is from a blogpost called More Things to Do: Trellis Installation.
One thing that we learned is that it takes a long time to install the trellising system. Another thing that we learned is our trellis system is especially critical because our tall grafted vines grow quickly and need support shortly after they are planted. This is the breakdown of what we did and how long it took us (us = two people, a tractor and a trailer). A generous loan of the post pounder and the auger from the Holmbergs, facilitated the installation of our black locusts endposts and the timely help of our friends all contributed to getting this job done.

Task	Time Elapsed	Actual Days worked
Line Post Installation (1332 line posts)	May 12, 2014 - June 25, 2015	May 2014: 12,13,14,17,18,19,20,22,23,25 June 2014: 2,3 August 2014: 4, 5, 9,10,11,12 September 2014: 29 October 2014: 3,5,6,10,12 (half way through) 13(17 more rows to go) 14,15,17,18,20,21 (10 more rows to go) June 2015: 10,11,12,16,17,18,22,24,25 finis!
Endposts (72 end posts)	November 2014	November 2014: 11,12,13,14,15,16,18(north end) 19,20,21,23,25,28,29(south end)
Earth anchors (72 earth anchors)	December 2014	December 2014: 14,15,16,17,18(south then north field),19,21

Work on our trellis continued in 2015 as we used the G-Pak to secure our endposts to our earth anchors. My husband was able to do this task in 2-3 days. Getting the appropriate spinning jenny makes Installing Our Fruiting Wire one of the simpler tasks in the trellis installation. So, on June 25th, we breathe a sigh of relief and celebrated by taking a selfie with the last line post, our version of the golden spike.