It took a little longer than anticipated, but we finally managed to plant all 500 vidal blanc vines. I checked the almanac just for fun, and this actually was listed as a good day for planting vines!
Right now, they are just little brown sticks in the ground – but with buds – and they all had very nice root systems. Next we will need to run the irrigation hoses, add emitters and install the trellis system. Seems like planting the vines was the easy part…