I spent the entire day up close and personal with every single vine in Vinoland. Tomorrow the vineyard is being sulphured so I needed to get all the shoots stuffed up under the trellis. I also spent some time removing some laterals in the fruit zone. Wow, there seems to be plenty of extra vigour this season. All that surplus greenery just gets in the way of where the sulphur needs to go, so it was, "Off with their heads!" It's okay, they don't feel a thing.
The vines also got their first watering of the year. That meant checking every emitter, two for each vine, to make sure that they weren't clogged up with gunk. All in all not bad, only a handful needed to be replaced which is much better than some past years. The recycled water we are now using is much easier on the emitters than Vinoland's well water.
Drink up kids!
2 comments:
I'm tired just reading this; you must be ready for the Olympics!
Bet you sleep well.
Salute!
NHW: Ha! My feet were tired, but the vineyard looked so neat and tidy it was worth it.
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