Our crew rented a post pounder to install the steel T posts for the new winery vineyard. By noon, 8 of the 12 two hundred foot long rows had been installed and post installation was finished in early afternoon. … [Read more...] about New winery vineyard installation
Archives for April 2014
Today the wood chip mulch was removed from around the base of the grapevines. The mulch protects the graft union through winter for the first 4 to 5 years after planting. … [Read more...] about Removing mulch from grape graft unions
GDD base 50 accumulated since April 1 = 206 http://agebb.missouri.edu/weather/reports/gddTable.asp Phenology stages according to the Modified E-L system http://door.uwex.edu/files/2010/10/ModifiedEichhornLorennzsystem.pdf Things started moving with a few shoots up to 4 inches long. We fertilized the mature grapes with 75 pounds per acre 46-0-60. The one year old grapes … [Read more...] about Grape phenology and GDD accumulation
Mike disbudded the high tunnel peonies today. We will cut the flowers from the main bud when they are just opening and record number of flowers harvested per plant and date of harvest. We are going to compare harvest dates between the peonies grown in the high tunnel and those grown outside in an adjacent planting. … [Read more...] about High tunnel peonies
Today we planted 'Provider' bean seeds, harvested more lettuce as well as some broccoli. Some heads on the broccoli were quite small but we had to pick them since a few were starting to flower. I brought a head of each lettuce variety up to Simpson's Family Farm for Deb French and Mom Simpson to estimate crop value at market. … [Read more...] about Harvesting and planting veggies in high tunnel