It's Not Over Til the Nursery is In

Although we finished the planting of our vines on Wednesday, May 18th, we still had loose ends to tie up. We had about 150 extra plants to plant in our nursery. This task took us about 2 days since we were running on fumes as the end of the week approached. We did get the nursery in:

Since the nursery plants had been sitting in water for about a week, they were beginning to bud out. I wondered how the waxed vines, Cabernet franc ENTAV 214 were going to bud out of the wax, but they did. I think that waxing the vine is a good way to protect the new buds. The Cabernet franc was the only variety that came waxed.