It's already four days into June! The rain has made our spring pruning duties very difficult. In fact, the last cuttings from pruning the vineyard was removed yesterday with the help of our friends Mary and Barry.
Yes, full disclosure. We were working until Monday to prune our vineyard. You can see that the cuttings in the sled have green growth on them. Everything looked so promising at the end of March, but April and May were two months full of rain. We don't prune on days that rain so when we could we were pruning. Pruning and laying down the canes became, pruning, laying down the canes and disbudding! We had to be very careful when doing those activities so as not to knock off a bud or later, a young shoot. But now we are finally done! Thank you Mary, Barry and Rich for helping us with the cutting removal.
While Mary and Barry and my husband were busy with cutting removal, I worked on shoot tucking the Barbera. I call the Barbera our wild child because the developing shoots are not stiff like other varieties and have a tendency to lean any which way that they want to.
Here is what the Barbera looks like now:
They have reached the second catch wire. Looking at the buds, the growth seems a little slower than normal. From here on out, it is a race to ensure that the shoots are thinned!
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