Spraying the Vineyard

After a fairly normal sleep I was able to get up and head to the vineyard to do some final work and spray Tom's remaining fungicide.

I decided my plan of attack would be to target the black rot happening in the 3rd row (Golden Muscat). I was able to pick most of the berries that were already rotten up to the 10th vine. At each vine I plucked what I could then applied the spray. The Frontenacs in row 2 didn't exhibit much if any black rot so I quickly sprayed them just for good measure.

After a few hours of that I walked around the first row to see if there truly was nothing growing and to my surprise there were little chutes of vines coning up where the plantings were done years ago. The roots still must be active and are trying to come up. I walked each row and noticed there were actually quite a few chutes where previously we thought everything was dead. So I updated the map and am posting it here.

Next things to do would be to make a new batch of spray and apply it to the remaining vines that were not sprayed. Also any black rot berries that are on the vines could be picked off, with carefulness not to leave any mummies behind as the fungus winters and comes back in spring. Another thing would be to trim under the concord row to promote some more air flow under the canopy.

Fun weekend in the vineyard!