Tassel Ridge News

Last week, it was either rainy, 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 to

Last week, we used a skid loader to remove trees and shrubs at Maple Woods and got all vineyards mowed. We also removed vines that grow up our trellis posts at Maple Woods. This is very time-consuming because these vines grow quickly and literally cover the posts.

Last week we sprayed Tassel Ridge, Meadowcreek, Newport Lane, and Maple Woods vineyards. We are all done with spraying for a couple of weeks. We have also gotten all mowing up-to-date but that will be a weekly task for now. We are almost done pulling trees at

While high winds and rain last week did not permit vineyard work on some days, problems with the chiller at our warehouse and with the tractor we use for mowing prevented us from focusing on vineyard tasks. We did get some hand-pruning done and we pulled out