dragonmaster42
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Thought I'd share a few pics I took around the place of the future/developing wine garden, hopyard, and thanks to rrawhide syrah/ merlot vineyard that I decided to call Dry Creek Overlook. The place is mostly a steep hill and trees about 4 miles west of Waldo in Benton, AR. There's a pretty good size sunny patch I'm taking advantage of and have a chainsaw that I can make more with.
Looking down the back couple acres at Dry Creek from the upstairs porch. Yes, it's mostly trees this time of year, but there really is a creek down there.
One of a dozen or so Syrah cuttings. They've been in the ground just undera month now, planting was delayed by the 20" of rain we got in May. Haven't done the trellis yet or adrip line for watering.
One of about 20 Merlot cuttings:
Hop vines on an experimental low trellis system. They're 11 ft high with a 4' cross at the top (all PVC) with 2 vines per string. The two that are going strong are Cascade (first pic) and Willamette (second pic). There's also a Magnum and Kent Golding which only have a couple vines on them.
Here you can see the trellis system better. I planted a Saaz rhizome one one of them to try out but it never came up.Might try another one next year. Most of the other green stuff visible is weeds and the corner of the raspberry patch (the tall stuff in the bottom left). This was taken before I cleared the rows for the grape cuttings.
Planted a small patch of red, black and whitecurrants this year, 3 of each. Here's one of the black currants. One reds didn't make it and one black ones got weed whacked by mistake. It's coming back strong though.
Also put in a raspberry patch. Seems to be devoping awhite cottony looking fungus(?) on it that's been killing back some of the vines so I need to spray them.
Also plantedthis spring were some sweet and tart cherry trees and 5 chokecherry trees. A deer has found the cherry trees though, so not sure how those will fair. All but one has been completely deleafed at least once, most of them twice.... Come this fall, he better watch out!!
Tony
Looking down the back couple acres at Dry Creek from the upstairs porch. Yes, it's mostly trees this time of year, but there really is a creek down there.
One of a dozen or so Syrah cuttings. They've been in the ground just undera month now, planting was delayed by the 20" of rain we got in May. Haven't done the trellis yet or adrip line for watering.
One of about 20 Merlot cuttings:
Hop vines on an experimental low trellis system. They're 11 ft high with a 4' cross at the top (all PVC) with 2 vines per string. The two that are going strong are Cascade (first pic) and Willamette (second pic). There's also a Magnum and Kent Golding which only have a couple vines on them.
Here you can see the trellis system better. I planted a Saaz rhizome one one of them to try out but it never came up.Might try another one next year. Most of the other green stuff visible is weeds and the corner of the raspberry patch (the tall stuff in the bottom left). This was taken before I cleared the rows for the grape cuttings.
Planted a small patch of red, black and whitecurrants this year, 3 of each. Here's one of the black currants. One reds didn't make it and one black ones got weed whacked by mistake. It's coming back strong though.
Also put in a raspberry patch. Seems to be devoping awhite cottony looking fungus(?) on it that's been killing back some of the vines so I need to spray them.
Also plantedthis spring were some sweet and tart cherry trees and 5 chokecherry trees. A deer has found the cherry trees though, so not sure how those will fair. All but one has been completely deleafed at least once, most of them twice.... Come this fall, he better watch out!!
Tony