Grape harvest
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010We harvested our grapes yesterday.
We weren’t expecting a great amount of fruit this year with the severe pruning the vines had in winter, but even so there wasn’t an awful lot there. We were a bit late in getting the vines thinned out so a good airflow and the sun could get to the ripening fruit, so we lost some to mildew as well. Then with the very dry summer, about half of them had already ripened and dried out before we got to the harvesting. A legacy of too many other things to do at the same time, but lots of good lessons for next year.
