Category / Vineyard

Vineyard Update

Growing grapes is tough! It is at relationship level tough! Every week and almost every day it needs attendance and care. Everything started out so well, however it has been a particularly humid and wet year from March right through to July and as such the vines have manifested a bad disease: Downy Mildew. The...

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Vineyard

8 January 2023

So it begins

by terramia

Starting the new project there’s lots to do. The first thing on the list is the trellis rebuild. The original structure used metal posts which at parts eventually buckled and bent under the weight of the lines and weathering of the metal. Additionally I didn’t particularly like the lack of attention to the end post...

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Vineyard

1 January 2023

New Beginnings

by terramia

So here we are at the start of a new year and a new project – a vinyard! What I plan to do is jot down my adventures in this new project, a project that I am sort of forced to take on with the land we now own. The vinyard is in tatters! The...

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Vineyard