Take a look at the post below. Yep, I was wrong.
As much as it really felt like we were past the threat of frost.... we weren't. We've had 3 or 4 frosts since then. Of course, I planted most of my tomatoes. I sheltered them on nights when we had a frost warning. Unfortunately, we weren't always warned and I lost quite a few from unannounced spotty frost. So now I've filled in the holes where I lost plants and the varieties are completely mixed up...
The grapes held up through all of the frosts until the most recent one (last week). That frost hit several of the grape varieties pretty hard... as you can see. We'll have to see how well they come back. The only good news it that it hit varieties that we don't count on -- most of the ones in the vineyard area east of the tasting room are old hobbyist varieties planted by my dad long before we were a commercial winery.
Ok, it's now June. Are we finally safe?
Ah, the pleasures of agriculture.
2 comments:
Just got on your blog after seeing your reply on the Friday Fill Ins. I am an avid wine drinker. I am from Colorado, and visit the Palisade wine area every year. Some of the best fruit wines ever, cherry, peach, pear. I love to drive through the orchards when I'm there.
Sounds delicious! Our specialty is Raspberry...
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