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SHOOT THINNING IN THE VINEYARD
It is late spring here in Lake Chelan, Washington. We are in the Northern Hemisphere. I am reminding you about this because growing seasons are different in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Here, our growing season is pretty much March to the end of October.
PRUNING IN THE VINEYARD
We're going to be pruning in the vineyard today, and at Nefarious, we do something called two bud pruning. We do this for a reason. Each one of the buds on these canes will produce a tendril or a shoot. Our ideal scenario is when these shoots have come up, that we've got about four inches, or about a fist, between every one of these shoots that comes out of the bud.
VINEYARD SERIES: JANUARY
This is the first video in a year-long series we will be doing in the vineyard. This is so that you can come to understand what happens in a single growing season. It is January here in Lake Chelan. Some years we have snow on the ground, other years it looks just like it does right now.
Have you ever heard the term varietal and not known what that meant? I'm going to explain it to you in terms that are a little easier to understand and relate it to something familiar.