Planting day!

Apr 2, 2022 TaylorTinyFarm

We planted our vineyard today!

We have 200 vines. 50 each of Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Barbera and Merlot. All varieties grown in Italy. Putting this together took a ton of work and I’m thankful to our friends who came out for planting.

alter-text — Vines arrived!

alter-text — Soaking for 24 hours to get them off to a good start.

alter-text — What are we doing? Will it be hard?

alter-text — Stickers?

alter-text — Yep this is hard…

alter-text — This is a nice tree.

alter-text — We must protect the vines from deer and herbicide!

alter-text — Tying the support stakes to the trellis wire.

alter-text — Planting from a distance.

alter-text — Up close and personnal

alter-text — Watering the vines in so they get a good start.

alter-text — I’m not helping at all…

alter-text — I’m so excited. For this to be over…'

alter-text — Fin

alter-text — Irrigation added later.

alter-text — Bud break.

alter-text — Little tike taking off.

alter-text — Off to the races.

alter-text — Must. Propogate. Genes!

alter-text — 2 months later…6-1-2022