We were not out there just for fun...it was time for us to plan some more vines! We spent last weekend planting about 300 sauvignon blanc vines. Fortunately, our new friends Jesse, Johnny, and Sammy (their adorable puppy) came out to help. Fall is a good time to plant the vines because they will benefit from the wet winter. The picture below is about half of the SB vines we had to plant this fall.
Johnny worked ahead with the auger to prep the holes for the vines.
Jesse and Chris (with little help from Sammy) planted each vine by hand. It might look like Chris was just 'supervising', but he really did plant some, too.
Sammy enjoyed running around the vineyard searching for little critters.
The existing plants are doing well. The Pinot Noir is still in grow tubes. They will likely stay on for another growing season. Chris has done a great job getting the weeds under control and the cover crop has started to grow. You can see in these pictures that the rows have just dirt with the vines and the alleys have green cover crop growing.
The existing sauvignon blanc vines are doing very well! It is a bit hard to tell in this picture, but all of the plants have grown a lot since they were planted. We might even get a small crop of SB to play with next year!
In addition to the SB, we have about 80 more Pinot Noir plants in 1 gallon pots waiting to go in the ground. These will probably not be planted until next spring.
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