We had lots of helpers this weekend to plant 200 new Traminette grape vines. It did not take us that long at all!
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| Anja and Leif are planting |
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| girls taking a snack break |
We stuck to our “proven” method of planting vines, but this year, we surrounded each vine with cardboard (which we had been saving all winter), and then we covered the cardboard with mulch. Hoping that this will keep the weeds a bay and allow the grapevines a head start. It certainly looked pretty when we were all done.
Half the vines were grafted, using rootstock #3309, the other half was not grafted. We’ll try and document the difference in growing habits, disease resistance, winter hardiness etc.
