Hello suckers!

I'm back!
Whilst I was on holiday it seems there was some extra-curricular, shoot goings-on in the vineyard. Can't a Vinogirl go away for almost 3 weeks without some viticultural skulduggery taking place in her absence? Seems not.
Not to worry, all the vines will be whipped back into shape over the coming weekend. Bye-bye suckers!

My babies.

I spent most of the day in the vineyard performing, what my professor at the college would call, spring viticultural operations. I call it back breaking work: suckering extraneous shoots from the trunks of the vines and stuffing wayward shoots into the trellis wires. The rows really look pretty when you are finished, but that's really not the point...unless you are a girl. I also trained up some baby vines. Can we all say, ahhh.
I had field budded some vines last September and now it is time to train them up a stake and watch them mature into wine grape bearing adults. Sniff. Brings tears to my eyes, or is that my back aching?