Removing My Dead Vineyard ― Starting with the Vines
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A year after killing the vines in my vineyard, I finally remove the vines. It took two days, but it was spread out over three or four due to rain. It was a bittersweet task as I knew the idiosyncrasies of every single vine, and it was sad to yank them out, but in the end, the bugs won. 😑
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Sad day, been following you for years, you helped me a lot for putting in my own vineyard. Thanks for the upload, completely understand.
Thanks Laney Vineyards! Good luck with your vineyard 😊
@@PlanetMojo Thank you, I appreciate that!
Hi Mojo, that's a really sad story but I'm sure you did the right thing,there comes a time when you're just defeating the object, a sad day but I'm sure it's a load off your mind and at the end of the day there's only so many hours in the day.
Thanks Larry! I hated to see it go, but it got to a point where it was taking so much time for no returns, that I just had to pull the plug. I still have the Dwarf Orchard though, so I'll spend a bit more time there 😊
@@PlanetMojo always look on the bright side of life,that's the signature tune of two of our famous comedians namely Morecambe and wise
Sad to see it go ,you did such a fantastic job, really loved the videos about the Vinyard
Thanks Dimitris! Vineyards across the entire area are closing up shop, and the ones remaining open are having a hard time 😞
Shame you had do that, i was looking forward to your sending a box of grapes to me 😊 boy could you use my excavator pull all those posts out quickvand easy. I pack up and head your way 👍
Thanks Dave! It turns out the posts came out pretty easy, and would have needed to be replaced this year 😐 I would have still loved to pull them out with an excavator though 😉
@@PlanetMojo 😊👍
I’m sorry to see the vineyard gone. Your videos helped to inspire me to plant some Marquette. I suppose I’ll be placing some caps on the ends of my posts.
Thanks That Dude. It's a good idea. I'll be using rubber roofing on the espalier fence posts soon.
We do not have japanese beetles here so I have minimal pest pressure the only occasional bug here is sharpshooters only because someone brought some in on some fruit trees.
Hopefully the Japanese Beetles never get to your area. I remember the first one was maybe five years ago(?) Nothing happened that year, but a vineyard about six miles away was completely decimated. It got worse every year, and only constant spraying would kinda stop them - but there was no stopping the hornets. I forgot to mention the Spotted Lanternfly is now making it's way into Wisconsin. 😑
Sad to see this go, but I can see what you mean. It would be like a farmer paying to grow corn instead of making a profit. 😑
One of our farmer neighbors is at the point where his farm income is less that a part time job - but with a lot more hours! He also works in town to stay above water. Times are tough...
I'll admit, I never watched the vineyard videos. I prefer the construction and woodworking videos.
I can see that. I'll be making some interesting things in the woodshop soon so stay tuned! 😊
Too much work for bugs to get the benefits. You did the right call, I know what I woulda done, lol 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Jodi, That part is coming soon 😁
I really will miss the vineyard videos I really enioyed them and im still a little upset you had to take the vines out.
Same here.
I understand the hassle the vineyard has been the last few years, but I'm just a little sad you had to do away with them. Do you have plans for that area besides grass?
Thanks Gail, yes I do have plans that I will be revealing in an upcoming video 😊
Where I live grapes are very expensive, we have the largest industry in the entire United States both Table and Wine grapes and prices are skyhigh, cheapest is 1800 a ton for less desirable grape varietals and the good ones that everyone wants are $3800-8500 a ton. Grapes are big money, we spent like $75,000 on grapes alone for the winery one year.
If I had lived near you I would have taken your grapes just to keep them alive and planted and not see a vineyard get ripped up as I do home winemaking on top of commercial winemaking.
The cold weather grapes go for a lot less than that 😞
@@PlanetMojo That really sucks,
Another thing is that Gen Z is not drinking wine at all, and Gen X/Millennials are cutting back on drinking altogether!
My daughter said the same thing! I guess that's a good thing though 😉
Is that post damage from carpenter ants or not having post caps on them? I have always heard to put a pointed metal post cap on posts like that. I have no real world knowledge on whether or not that helps!
It's from water. We don't have many carpenter ants around here, but if we did, I would have had them 😉 I actually found mushroom growing an a couple of the cross members. I had planned on putting piling caps on the posts, but couldn't find any small enough. I have a plan for the espalier fence that should work though 😊
I empathize with your plight with pests. I'm cutting back on stonefruit trees because I simply cannot spray enough fungicide and insecticide to keep them alive long enough to be worth the effort. Furthermore, my body is becoming more sensitive to the sprays when I use the fruit. If I purchase grape juice from a winery to make wine, the resulting wine gives me a headache. And no, it is not the sulfites. I use sulfites in all my wines, but wine made fromy own minimally sprayed fruits, grapes, and berries are fine.
I hand pick Japanese beetles and feed them to the chickens. However, I don't have a large vineyard.
Going forward, if a tree dies I will bo longer replace it. I now have a set of hardy grapevines for my environment so I should be able to manage if I can keep the voles under control.
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Or Japanese beetles got into the thousands daily - no way to hand pick them. But the wasps were the worst. They would bite the grapes and wiggle aggressively until they made a hole, then lapped-up the juice. 😞
@@PlanetMojo I too had that problem... until a skunk showed up and dug out and ate the nests!
Sad day, but happy you will have less work/stress 😊
Thanks. It definitely was stressful 🥴
so sad...