Terraced vineyard

[mdbarb]

another angle

 

[polecat]

wow talk about a lot of back breaking work...awesome job!!!
/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gifnow correct me if i'm wrong but is this the same prop. u r fighting to keep!!!??????? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
wow and jist looked at the plants...and the rock work!!! u have bin busy my friend!!!!!!!!

 

[mdbarb]

yes this is the same piece of property, yet another reason I do not want to bail on this.
BTW I have another interesting project just nearing completion. I'll see if I can bring pics tomorrow.

 

[Typhoon]

WOW!!! I cannot even imagine the hours of work you have in this project. I am still in shock about those rock walls... incredible.
You should be very proud.
-Brad

 

[EastTexFrank]

Man!!!!! That is beautiful but I'm afraid it way too much work for this tired ol' body. You should be very proud of it.

I haven't played with grapes or made wine for a long time. I gave up after my wife used my last batch to clean lime scale from the toilet bowls. I must admit that it was pretty bad but I had to drink it as a matter of principle. I was sssoooo glad when that lot was finished ... never tried it again.

 

[mdbarb]

I just got back from Hawaii and there were rock walls around every corner that put my vineyard to shame.
Some of them must have been 30 ft high and flatter than the walls in my living room . incredible.
no pics cuz the family couldnt understand why we should pull over to take a pic of some dumb old rock wall when we are going to the beach!
I saw them working at one job site - about 30 men shoulder to shoulder along the face of the wall all building it at once - would have love to watch and learn for awhile....

 

[polecat]

the rock walls when i lived in england were way to cool!!!!
and have stood for a couple 100 yrs too!!!!..roads are really deep to...have 10-20' hedges above on the sides...my gues is the foot and horse traffic b4 paved road came into existence wore them out!!! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[MuncyBob]

I know what you mean about the walls in UK.....really interesting country side....rock walls everywhere and hardly a straight road to be found...spent all my teenage years there and just wish I could have appreciated it then like I do now!...as they say, youth is wasted on the young!

 

[mdbarb]

Well almost three years from the initial post. I've planted, trained, pruned, sprayed etc etc .
This is the first year I let the vines fruit.
Had to deal with a bad case of powdery mildew.
Carefully monitored the sugar and PH then as the grapes were just about baby bear right for picking
I was totally wiped out by raccoons in one night
It must have been some party, I assume the raccoons are sleeping it off right now.
So now I have about a year to figure out how to prevent this from happening again.
Any suggestions?
I can't practically put an electric fence around the whole vineyard - but may put some up where I can - every little bit will help.
I can trap em but that's fighting the tide.
Plus I wonder how natures balance would tilt if suddenly all raccoons disappeared - probably some other equally harmful varmint would appear.

 

[jmc]

Well, if its any consolation, they do the exactly the same thing with sweet corn here in Indiana.