what is the name and brand of the device you used for hedging? I have inherited something different and it only does one side of the row as I drive through it with my tractor. Thanks
You repeat the same mistakes of other vineyards. First mistake: The leaves provide the sugar and food for the grapes and roots. By cutting the leaves off you put the vine on a diet. Second mistake: You let the leaves tower above the ripening grapes, putting the grapes into the shades and the uncut branches and leaves in full sunshine. Why? Because you don't think independently and just do what everyone does. Third mistake: Your grapes grow on the level of your belly, making you bend over to cut the ripe grapes. You will have a bad back when you have done this work 30 years. Allow the grapes on the level of your chest or higher, using a ladder. Allow the new leaders and new growth to grow UNDER the grapes, using the empty space under the grapes. Fourth mistake: You grow only monocrops. The area under the grapes has space to plant red, white or black currants. These you can pick in June - July. The earliest grapes you pick at the end of august - october. After picking the currants, you bend the new grapeleaders down along the berrybushes. Mistake Five: By having the blooms of grapes unprotected, they are vulnerable for late frost. The new growth of currant bushes will protect the grapeblooms from frost, also because the blooms are higher up now. Mistake Six: By using machines to work the vineyard, you compact the earth and make bad cuts, making the grapevines contract weak and open for pests and fungus. Mistake Seven: By using famous varietals and not PIWI varietals, you have to spend a lot of hours tending the vineyard. I hope to have woken you up for a better way of growing grapes. I am a coach by profession and a gardener. I use different methods in my mixed fruit garden with 85 grape varietals. coachfmvos@gmail.com
what is the name and brand of the device you used for hedging? I have inherited something different and it only does one side of the row as I drive through it with my tractor. Thanks
You repeat the same mistakes of other vineyards. First mistake: The leaves provide the sugar and food for the grapes and roots. By cutting the leaves off you put the vine on a diet. Second mistake: You let the leaves tower above the ripening grapes, putting the grapes into the shades and the uncut branches and leaves in full sunshine. Why? Because you don't think independently and just do what everyone does. Third mistake: Your grapes grow on the level of your belly, making you bend over to cut the ripe grapes. You will have a bad back when you have done this work 30 years. Allow the grapes on the level of your chest or higher, using a ladder. Allow the new leaders and new growth to grow UNDER the grapes, using the empty space under the grapes. Fourth mistake: You grow only monocrops. The area under the grapes has space to plant red, white or black currants. These you can pick in June - July. The earliest grapes you pick at the end of august - october. After picking the currants, you bend the new grapeleaders down along the berrybushes. Mistake Five: By having the blooms of grapes unprotected, they are vulnerable for late frost. The new growth of currant bushes will protect the grapeblooms from frost, also because the blooms are higher up now. Mistake Six: By using machines to work the vineyard, you compact the earth and make bad cuts, making the grapevines contract weak and open for pests and fungus. Mistake Seven: By using famous varietals and not PIWI varietals, you have to spend a lot of hours tending the vineyard. I hope to have woken you up for a better way of growing grapes. I am a coach by profession and a gardener. I use different methods in my mixed fruit garden with 85 grape varietals. coachfmvos@gmail.com