looking good, this year is starting off really well.
Backyard Vineyard - Year two
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Today my neighbor stopped by and augered all 32 holes for trellis posts in about an hour!
I don’t know if I could have dug two by hand in an hour.
Posts this weekend, and wires for the Marquette. Some are pushing 8 feet tall already.
I don’t know if I could have dug two by hand in an hour.
Posts this weekend, and wires for the Marquette. Some are pushing 8 feet tall already.
Well that augurs well! 
That’s a machine we could all use!! Vineyard looking great vines are really popping
Ohio Bob
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I don’t even need it, but I want one!
Your soil looks great, you should have some excellent harvests.
I set all 32 posts today. Right now I am sore (not as much as I will be tomorrow) and exhausted.
I ran out of daylight so tomorrow I will water them it good and start on the cross posts and braces.
I ran out of daylight so tomorrow I will water them it good and start on the cross posts and braces.
Where did you get the post, they look great.
A fence company in the UP. They specialize in cedar posts. I called about treated posts so they sent cedar posts to a local company to have them treated. Nice and straight and not too heavy.
It’s starting to look like a vineyard! I should be able to get the wires up this weekend
Nice end bracing on your trellis, that is a serious H brace, should keep the cow from breaking out! 
Yeah with the length of trellis a straight post would probably be fine. I just have a habit of over designing everything. I still need to trim the tops of course. And add brace wire.Nice end bracing on your trellis, that is a serious H brace, should keep the cow from breaking out!
Vineyard is looking great!
Looking good, have you noticed any herbicide drift from the farm field? Even tho there no farm fields near me I had some damage in 2021&2022.
Maybe. There are three vines - all close to the field that look like this
I’m not sure if that’s herbicide damage or not. Also, most of the vines closest to the field are probably 50% smaller than the rest. I was thinking it could also be because those vines are planted on what was the edge of the cropped field. So they have had decades of farming history where the rest of the vines are on ground that was fallow for the last 24 years.
This is what it looks like
nope, nothing like that. I think what I have is a nutrient deficiency. Odd that it would be worse on vines that are planted where the field edge was, but the vines that are in the fallow ground area look fine. I have been meaning to get a soil test. I think I’ll get two and divide it by past land use (cropped vs fallow)
Soil tests are good, leaf or petiole tests are even better because you can see what the plants actually utilize. I use AgSource labs in Bonduel, they do a quick turnaround. I tried the soil and forage lab at UW Madison but it took two weeks to get a report. Both reports were almost identical.
Is there a recommended time of year for the petiole test?
