Vintage 2020: February

This winter has been the warmest that I have experienced since we began growing grapevines. We have not been immune to some of the bad weather that has been rolling across the U.S. and on Friday, we had howling winds with gusts reaching 60 mph! Other than that, we have been working in the vineyard, trying to put ourselves in a good position with pruning done much sooner than we did last year. So, our task for February is to cut all of the tendrils and free the canes from the ties that we tethered the canes with last growing season. This will make pruning in March and removing the wood much easier. Our friends came to help us and put us in a good place with the tendril pruning. While we were doing the tendril removal, we came upon this weird looking, cottony "stuff".

We did some research on the internet but didn't find anything conclusive, but it doesn't look like a good thing so we will get rid of it.