Recent content by MeadowStationVines

I logged in back at the beginning of May saw your pictures and was totally shocked as I still had dead looking sticks in my backyard (and still do). Did you make it unscathed through May? Up here it was a pretty uneventful spring compared to last year.

I have a lot of rabbits in my area so I needed something for the little vines to get them going and also read about the grow tubes so I used the milk cartons. They are really inexpensive and worked quite well. I also would not worry too much about that vine. I had deer come through and...

Well I have finally found time to get back to the forum. Spring is a crazy busy time at our property and adding a vineyard didn’t help with that much. Winter was pretty rough on our vines. It wasn’t a particularly cold winter but we had that snow in Oct that ended the growing season last year...

Thanks! We will plant something in the alleys just not sure what yet. I would like to plant a cover crop that adds nutrients back into soil but have not really spent much time researching yet as I read somewhere that it is best to wait until year 3 so there is no competition with the vines. So...

So I have been searching the forum looking for fall/winter watering advice, most of what I saw was “stop watering about a month before first frost”. Ummm well it’s a little late for that seeing how we got 3” of snow and hit 22 degrees last week. I did have enough warning to get the irrigation...

Well thought I should post an update now that summer is just about over. Had couple of surgeries I wasn’t planning on slow me down a bit but the wife seems to have done a nice job keeping up with things. Other than a few visits from a deer friend of mine who did some early pruning they seem to...

So do you just have one that you set in the middle and let it go around, or do you have multiple to cover the vines from different sides? I will definitely have to look into something like that for next spring we got down to 31 yesterday morning again.

I don’t have a frost sprinkler setup as this is the first year and well, I wasn’t expecting to get any more frost but I am curious about using a sprinkler. From what I read you should start the sprinkler before it gets below 32 and keep it running until after the temp is back above 32? We got...

Thanks guys. Overnight low only hit 30 so not as bad as I was expecting but considering it mid May.... Guess we will see the damage tomorrow when the sun comes out and we take the bags off.

Wow you weren't kidding, you do have clusters forming all over the place. Looking at your forecast you might want to get your smudge pots ready just in case.

Yea and I was thinking to myself last weekend "Well this way better than 2016 when we got snow on Mothers Day" boy was I wrong. Tomorrow morning will be a little scary for sure, weather folks said we were going to hit 40 today but we haven't even made it to 35 at my house so I suppose we hit...

Well yesterday morning we were enjoying seeing all the little buds bursting. And then we woke to this...... We are supposed to get 4-8 inches of snow today/tonight. Went out and covered them all with gallon freezer bags hoping that will help. Weather station says the overnight low...

I've been making kit wine for about 5 years. The last 2 years or so I started to learn more of the science behind the wine and making modifications to the kits (not always improvements mind you but modifications). I figure I have about 3-4 years to figure out how to make wine from grapes...

Three years ago when we moved out here a family vineyard was not on my list of To-Do’s. Some prodding from the wife and finding this forum made me think “ I can do this…” Not sure how well I can do this but I’m hoping with some luck and help from this forum this will be more than my winter...

My guess is that Tom has not allowed them to start selling it yet but that is just a total guess. I have read some good stuff about that grape in a few places and saw some folks selling the wine online.m Maybe I will order a bottle or two and see what the fuss is all about.