Saturday, May 11, 2013

have maybe 30 new vines 25(?)mourvedre. they are just sticks but they seem to have established. pruned very hard in march. cut some of the syrah down to one arm. cut it away from the fence. full harvest this year from 4 year old grenache on northside. some fruit from the southside. will take maybe 30 clusters from new slope. am going to try to reduce blush fruit from grenache. pulling in some gophers from lost of set traps. the new ones Michael bought. they are narrower in the beam which has turned to be good. they are maneuverable.