Mother Nature has blessed the 2017 spring and summer with rain. Pre-budbreak, I blogged about all of the rain that we were getting in April in,
Vintage Notes: April 2017. It's good news and it's bad news. All of the spring rain meant that our vineyard was at field capacity for water and that is good news. In addition, the vines, old and newly planted benefited from the spring rain. Another benefit of the periodic downpour of rain is that we haven't had to rent the generator to power the irrigation system like we did last year. All this rain has a downside which meant that my husband had to be on top of the spraying so that the dreaded fungi powdery, downy, black rot, phomopsis, anthracnose, doesn't take hold in the vineyard.
Here is what we have had in terms of rain so far:
Date |
Amount of Rain |
May 5 |
2 inches |
May 25 |
1 inch |
May 29 |
1/2 inch |
June 16 |
1-3/4 inches |
June 27 |
1/2 inch |
July 7 |
1 inch |
July 12 |
1-1/2 inches |
Today is another day of rain so we are catching up on all the loose ends and running errands. Cheers!
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