Planting Day

This is what we have been looking at in the Northeast as planting day 2017 approaches for us. Last year, with a stellar crew, we planted 4200 vines in 6 days. This year, we have "only" 1500 vines to plant, but Mother Nature is not going to make it easy on us with this weather system that we were seeing last night.

Knowing the weather pattern coming up, a skeleton crew of 5 people planted nearly 300 vines on Thursday, reducing the number that we need to plant today and tomorrow to 1200 plants.
On Friday, the weather forecast called for rain showers in the morning so we delayed the start time for planting until 11 a.m. This morning, when we woke up, the forecast had changed to no rain in the morning and rain showers beginning at 10 or 11 a.m. Such is the vagary of farming and working with Mother Nature. I'll post again to let you know how we fared.