The Vineyard

We have finally finished making the vineyard. We settled on 8 grapes (Merlot, Cab Franc, Sangiovese, Toriga Nacional, Carignane, Nebbiolo, Zinfandel, and Petite Syrah). WE have been planning this for about 4 months and moved our raised gardens to make it happen. The nice thing about that was that we already had irrigation run out to the area. We had to make holes ~20" deep and I spaced them about 4.5' apart.


I used redwood 2x2' for stakes and used pressure treated 4x4' for the end posts. Instead of putting posts at each end I ran the trellis wire into the block wall.

 

Our grapes came basically as 18" sticks with some roots at the bottom all wrapped in a plastic bag. Interestingly, most of the vine goes under ground. I was told that this whole part will develop into a root ball and make a stronger rooted plant. We have about 3-4" sticking out at the moment. We will be excited with they start budding and we know that they are alive.