The last few weekends were spent planting more grapevines. We had prepared the ground already, but still had to mark the rows, as well as each spot for the vines. Then we dug out a deep enough hole for each rootcluster. The first weekend, we planted 200 additional Traminette vines at Anja & Duff’s ground, and last weekend, we planted 150 Chambourcin vines (grafted, on rootstock 3309) at the Long Shot Farm. Everyone helped and it did not take us that long at all!
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| Toben (7) helps to make holes for the vines |
We must have made some math error because when we were all done, we still had space for another 50 or so vines. Luckily, Double A Vineyard had sufficient grapes left over, and shipped them out right away- so those stragglers got planted today.
After we had planted all the vines, we used our plastic layer, and covered them – then we had to go through and poke holes for each new vine to stick out. We are hoping that this will help in case we run into another drought like last year.
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| Duff checks out his newly planted Traminettes |
