A Late Frost and a New Riesling Vineyard
The vineyards are flush with new growth about ten inches long (or at least they were yesterday - they grow fast!)- all a tender lime-green color. At least the buds that were not frozen are a lime green color with a delicate, and what looks like a miniature grape bunch, at the end. The frozen ones are all brown and crispy.
One week ago, a cold spell threatened many of the area's vineyards with damaging frosts. By and large, the damage to our vineyards was limited to the most northern of our vineyards, particularly the Chancellor vineyards (a French hybrids that were Frederick Johnson Sr.'s favorite wine grape). Unfortunately, some other local vineyard owners were not so fortunate and their concord crops will be seriously diminished.
Our vineyard manager, Ron Guzzetta, is very busy and this week's major task was the planting of a new Riesling vineyard - with the assistance of laser technology, which significantly reduced the time required to plant these new acres of vineyards.
Jennifer Johnson
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Thanks Jennifer for sharing the life at the Farm with your city friends - the picture is beautiful - hope you'll post more
ReplyDeleteJennifer, the image from the porch is awesome! So is the title - "Letters from the farmhouse". Keep it coming!
ReplyDeleteRe the frost . . . my 18 vines are no more. Going into their third year, I marveled at their growth. And so too my my baby black locust trees. All, without exception are shriveled and visibly dead! Maybe a miracle will happen!