Irrigation: More Things To Do

Tony and his team came to put the pump and motor into the well, so it was our turn to get busy putting in the irrigation lines. The first thing that needed to be done was to mark the line posts to indicate where the wire must be secured. Then, the wire had to be paid out and secured with the clip as shown on the photo at the right. After those two things happened, the hose could then be placed on the wire with plastic "curls", and with a nod to the (winter) Olympics, in a task that we called "curling".
Then, my husband married the flexible riser hose with the irrigation hose using a permalock valve.

When all was said and done, we had 7 irrigation zones.

As soon as we had a zone completed, we activated the irrigation and have been doing rotations since July 23rd when we started with Zone 6 and 7, our eastern most zones comprised of Chardonnay clones 76 and 96 and the red varieites, Cabernet sauvignon clone 412 and Cabernet franc clones 214 and 327.
Phew!