Winter (Dormant Vines)

• Plan for the coming year
• Fix indoor fixtures and maintenance on equipment as needed
• Winter pruning (positioning spurs and setting number of buds)
• Tie Up Cordons (tying plants to the wire)
• Trellis Repair (fixing the structure that holds the plants up)
• Remove Trimmings
• Dormant Sprays
• Soil samples

 

Spring (Bud Break and Flowering)

• Fertilize
• Begin Spray Program
• Trellis maintenance and erect new trellising
• Cluster thinning (removing excess fruit to control crop levels)
• Shoot thinning (removing excess shoots)
• Shoot positioning (to allow sun penetration in the canopy)
• Disk and drag vineyard expansion areas
• Layout new vineyard for expansion
• Plant new vines
• Petiole sampling

Summer (Ripening of fruit)

• Irrigation
• Disease control, insect control and bird-deterrent activities
• Leaf Removal (to allow sunlight on the grapes)
• Hedging (green shoot trimming)
• Grape Sampling (testing for brix and ph)
• Yield estimation and planning
• Remove grow tubes from new vines

Fall (Harvest)

• Pick Grapes
• Plan for next year
• Order new vines