From Our Vineyard

Last week, the vineyard team worked on tying up vines and removing suckers. Suckers are vine shoots that come up annually from the roots. They also completed repairs on broken posts and on mowing between the rows at the Maple Woods Vineyard. This week, we sprayed for

We removed suckers and tied up the LaCrosse vines at Maple Woods Vineyard. Rain helps the vines grow but the weeds seem to grow faster so we weed-whacked the newly planted vines at Meadowcreek Vineyard. These new vines are growing so fast that they were actually growing

Rain is very important at this time of year as the grapes are just beginning their race to maturity. But, it prevents mowing, tree removal, and even spraying of fungicides, insecticides, and nutrients. So, we’ll be happy to get some dry weather that will permit us to

Rain makes spraying and moving any heavy equipment in the vineyards difficult if not impossible. So, we have been limited in what we can do. We have focused on tasks that involve people on foot in the vineyards removing suckers and tying up the Crimson Pearl at

Last week, everyone was employed planting our new Foch and L’Acadie Blanc grapevines. That included installing pencil rods and grow tubes. Then we went to work removing suckers that come up from the vine roots each year and tying the vines up to the trellis where necessary.

Each year at this time, we normally take petiole samples from each grape variety in each vineyard and we send them to a lab for analysis. What is a petiole? The petiole is the stem of a grape leaf. We will collect 50–100 petioles from each grape

While the big news is our planting of new vines, we are also making progress on a number of fronts. We got Newport Lane and the Sabrevois at Maple Woods sprayed, the LaCrosse at Meadowcreek were suckered and tied up, and trees removed from the A, B,

Last week, we finished pulling trees at Maple Woods Vineyard and will work on pulling trees at Tassel Ridge Vineyard where we have lots more trees to pull. We finished spraying at Tassel Ridge Vineyard and removed suckers from the LaCrosse at Meadowcreek. The grass is growing

We have pulled most of the volunteer trees and bushes in the Maple Woods Vineyard but have about 11 rows to do. This task was neglected last year and probably the year before and we are paying the price now. We sprayed all vineyards except for some

Last week it was either rainy, or the vineyards were too soggy for our skid-steer, or it was too windy to spray. We were prevented from getting important work done. We did remove suckers and cleaned out the La Crescent at Meadowcreek. Right now, we are trying