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Adding Blanc Dubois grapevines and more Black Spanish

Decided to add a row of Blanc Dubois grapevines to the vineyard.  30 vines to be exact.  Living in the South we are limited to types of vines we can grow due to pierce disease.  After a lot of research I decided on this vine.  Plus I needed some white grapes, I’ve only planted red to date.  I hear some people don’t want or like a red wine.  Don’t understand that, but okay, white will be added.  The Black Spanish did pretty good last year so I decided to add another half row.  I now have about 30 of those vines as well.  They didn’t have issues like the Lomanto did last year.  They also don’t grow near as fast.  With the vigor less, should make it easier to work with.

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My poor wet, tired feet.

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Hiding from you

Shhhh just walk by.  You see nothing….  Found this little guy hiding out in one of the growth tubes around my grapevines.

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Lime application

Put down about a 900lbs of lime today.  PH was a little low.  Trying to get it up to 6.5 from 5.9 – 6.0.

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Japanese beetles are attacking

Well, I leaned a valuable lesson today.  I found beetles on my grapevines last week, so I picked up some beetle bags with attractant.  It works great, just don’t put near your grapevines.  I had bags on each end of the rows and the vines closest to bag were covered with jap beetle and the vines in the middle had few.  Note to self: put bags far away from vines next year.  Checkout the bag of beetles.  I mean what do you do with these things?  Also, after a few days of decaying beetles, those bags stink it up pretty good.

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Better view of first grapes

Just before I snubbed them out.  It will only make the vines and roots stronger to not let them set this year.  Still cool looking don’t you think?  I can grow grapes!

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Planted Grapevines today

The Lomanto and Black Spanish grape vines came in this week.  9 of each.  Just enough to test them out and see if this is what I want to grow.  Once in the ground I put some grow tubes on them like the Muscadines.  They help them grow faster and keep animals off the young shoots.

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