Pruning - January 2012

I started pruning in early January.  This year's new plantings will be cut back to just two buds and the first year's plantings will be trained to the fruiting wires where possible. Any "failed" vines will be removed and burned along with the prunings in our new mobile prunings burner.  This reduces incidence of disease (and keeps me warm! now where are those sausages..?)

Drainage

We installed a French drain along the bottom of the vineyard to alleviate some of the waterlogging that area has suffered from.