From Our Vineyard

Our Clarion vines were just planted in June and we had to race the clock to get the ground under the vines cleaned up and the grow tubes removed so that the vines could harden off for winter. We also fertilized them and several rows of Edelweiss

This year we planted about 500 Clarion vines in the Northwest corner of Tassel Ridge Vineyard. Each vine is in its own grow-tube that protects the young vine from critters and really severe weather. In fact, the grow-tube provides a greenhouse structure around the young vine. Now

We finished harvest and got the harvester all washed out and ready for storage for the winter. It was a disappointing harvest both in terms of quantity and quality of the grapes. We have made up the difference between what we harvested and what we need by

Last week, we harvested Brianna which we are growing at both Tassel Ridge and Maple Woods vineyards. The quality seemed good but the quantity was very disappointing. We had two good weather days late last week while we waited for Edelweiss to ripen. We got a lot

Last week, we continued cleaning up Maple Woods Vineyard however the frequent bouts of rain made that difficult. We did do some mowing in some of our vineyards. We delivered harvest carts to each vineyard and picked up our harvester from the local John Deere dealer where

We have removed all of the under-vine weeds at Maple Woods and have gone back to remove suckers and to tying up the vines as needed. We have been mowing all of the vineyards. And, we moved macro bins to each of the vineyards and got them

Our vineyard team has made excellent progress in getting the Maple Woods vineyard cleaned up and ready for harvest. We got our hawk kites up. They look like hawks to birds who leave the grapes alone when they see the kites. The Sabrevois looks really good and

We have been removing suckers and tying vines to the trellis, under-vine mowing, and then weed wacking in all three of our vineyards. We are also removing trees that are growing where we are working. We are spraying to control Japanese Beetles and repairing damaged posts. We

We have been making great use of our under-vine mower which we then follow with our little army of high school students and their weed wackers. The vineyards are not only looking better but we are expecting to get a bigger harvest of high-quality grapes. And, we

We are making excellent progress in cleaning up the vineyard floor by removing weeds, trees, and suckers from the strip under the vines at Maple Woods Vineyard. This work is very time consuming but anything growing under the trellis competes with the vines for water and nutrients