Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Shoot Positioning

These are the tasks that we have on our agenda these days: One of our tasks these days is shoot positioning. We are also putting in the hardware so that we can string the last set of catch wires on 9 of our rows. We also have to lower the irrigation hose that we raised in order to plant our vines and we should mow the alleys.
We have been "hampered" by rain. On Friday, June 16th it began raining around noon and by Saturday morning, our gauge showed that we had 1-3/4 inches of rain. Rain is a good thing during the early period of vine growth. Here is what our advanced Chardonnay 76 looks like:
Rain is good but not so good during bloom. I was shoot positioning while my husband was mowing and noticed that since Friday, the Chardonnay was now at around 50% bloom. The rains that we had over Friday and Saturday can lead to a situation called Millerandage. In the above photo, the vines are almost reaching the top of the linepost where there is no catch wire. That is a task we should get to soon. While I was shoot positioning, the lyrics to the song "Just the Two of Us" came into my head over and over again:
          Just the two of us
          We can make it if we try
          Just the two of us
When I went home to look for more information on this song, I learned that it was written by Bill Withers and Grover Washington and was on the album called Winelight released in 1980. How appropriate is that!

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