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A Vineyard Management class at DuCard Vineyards
Saturday's vineyard management class was the second of four at DuCard Vineyards, in Etlan, Virginia. We've been working with a section of Norton vines, and we'll be seeing them through until the harvest. Lots of work done is while we're not there (spraying, among other things), but we're doing much (well, some) of the essential work on the vines.
Scott Elliff, the vineyard's owner, has been migrating his vineyard from a Geneva Double Curtain trellising system to a modified Lyre system, so in our first class, we worked on pruning vines to facilitate that transition. Both GDC and Lyre are divided canopy systems in which the trunk of the vine is planted in the middle of two sets of trellis wires about four feet apart. With GDC, the vines grow downward, like a waterfall on each side of the row. With Lyre, they run up. Continue Reading–>
Planting Vine Number 14
On Sunday, Chris and I planted the last of the dozen Cab Franc vines we had ordered from Double A Nurseries in New York. These vines were a little different from what I had expected, based on the two Mammolo vines that we had received as a gift after a class on grafting. The Mammolos had a large and beautifully blooming scion (which is the actual vine) that had been grafted to phylloxera resistant rootstock. We pruned back the scions to three buds, and planted them. Continue Reading–>
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