Vintage Notes: Spring and Summer Rain Events

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!