Painted Lady Vineyard http://paintedladyvineyard.com Just another WordPress site Sat, 28 May 2011 05:37:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Spring Pruning http://paintedladyvineyard.com/spring/ http://paintedladyvineyard.com/spring/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:15:38 +0000 admin http://paintedladyvineyard.com/?p=42 As usual it seems that Easter is our time to prune.  Saturday came and we had help from Nikki Check and 3 of her students.  Some of the buds had already broken through and begun to leaf out, so perhaps a little late to prune.  We had to cut down many of our “old” trunks due to Crown Gall disease, only to find we also had signs of Eutypa ‘dieback’.  However good management last growing season gave us, for the most part, two new shoots to train along the cordons.  The cutting of the old vines is really hard – something we HAD to do, but not something we enjoyed doing.  Perhaps time to get out a bottle of wine and drown our sorrow!  Pic is of Jodi pruning. 

Jodi pruning

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