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This year I'm going to focus more on pruning, limiting yield, and aesthetics. For me the vineyard year starts in November. We had a warm October and most of my vines never really went through fall. The leaves just froze on the vine. November through February I try to mound the snow over...

My pruning method is controlled chaos, with the main goal of having a green wall and keeping the vines out of the driveway and the neighbors yard. I've mostly been letting my vines produce as much as they want. Last year a few of the vines produced over 40lbs of grapes. Quality seemed fine...

So... I didn't know the powdery mildew affected the grapes directly. Last year I had some powdery mildew on my tempranillos but it didn't affect the berries at all so I didn't think it would affect the berries directly. Ignorance is bliss. Last year the mildew didn't show up till late and...