Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Implementing New Net Position

We have always talked about putting our nets at the lowest position on our linepost which is where our irrigation hose is located but we have never implemented it. What a lower net position would do for us during the growing season is that it will definitely avoid this:
The photo shows tendrils growing into the rolled netting. All of the tendrils have to be removed from the netting and the shoots tucked into the trellis wire before veraison when the nets have to be lowered. The removal of the tendrils takes the better part of the growing season. During the growing season, we always tell ourselves that we will never be doing this again!
We go back and forth about how we will lower the netting and how we will attach it to the lineposts. We wanted to use something that was easy to use and reusable. We settled on Velcro this year and are tying the netting to our irrigation hose at each linepost. It looks like this:
One person can lower the netting from it's current position and Velcro the netting to the irrigation hose. It is a good solution, unless we need to use the irrigation!

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