If good weather prevails in March, we begin our vineyard work and this year it was very cold and snowy until the last week in March when we were able to get back into the vineyard. We began with work that we didn't get a chance to finish at the end of last year, namely lowering our nets and Velcroing the nets to our irrigation wire. We began our work in our red varieties and as of today, we've lowered 24 rows of nets and done the first pass of pruning the tops of last year's canes and making the first cut on last year's fruiting cane.
We had help from one of our friends, Ted, who came to help us with the removal of last year's canes. We have also been aided by the very nice weather that we've been having which is a change from previous years when April showers bring May flowers.
Another change we made this year was to remove our cuttings which we have stacked neatly on each linepost. So, last Thursday, Ted and our friend Mary, came to help us remove the cuttings from the vineyard. They removed all of the cuttings from 14 rows of the vineyard so we are feeling pretty good about the work that has been done so far.
There is more good weather coming up so hopefully we can get to doing the pruning that we need to do before budbreak!
No comments:
Post a Comment