This weekend we stated to prune our grapes. The top field we finished in about 3 hours. Not too bad for newbies. I just hope we did it right. We had bought a pruning video from an established vineyard owner who had made a video on the task of pruning. We are still trying to view the entire video program. (defective DVD) But we are confident that we did everything correctly so far. From what we learned at the conference in WI Dells in January, it is tough to kill grapes once they are established. We did leave (hopefully) some vines that Terry can get a crop off of this fall. He is anxious to experiment with the wine making part of this new founded life we jumped into. The Marquette vines were easy to prune. They were just planted last year so all we can do there it pick the best looking trunk, trim the shoots, and trim off the suckers. The Frontenac, Frontenac Gris, and LaCrescent was different. Most of them already had a nice trunk and the 2 main vines coming off the trunk. We still have 4 rows of the Marqeuttes to prune but we have a few months to get that done. Remember the 'R' rule states that prunning can be done in any month with an R. The snow is still deep in there so, it was good for us to move our bodies, and get some excersise. That is what this was all about.
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