walkinTas wrote:No Nik, they are for growing truffles. You need white wine to go with truffles.
Yes, but sadly, the truffles ain't working - ground temperature too warm next to the tamar, is the suspected culprit.
EDIT
OK ok, enough is enough, I have relented and decided to put in a vineyard. After all, it takes a while for the truffles to grow, and it takes a while for a vineyard to produce its first vintage.
So.
I figure on this plot I have enough room to install 11 rows of vines, each row containing 20 vines spaced evenly, allowing enough room for each vine to develop a good canopy and thus produce a good fruit set.
So I have purchased 88 copper logs to install at the ends - to build the stays that support the retaining wires at each end.
They will be in a shape of
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So the wire extends from the left.
22 tall logs for the main stays, and 66 for the brace configuration.
The wire - I have decided on the Scott Henry Trellis system so have purchased enough wire for 8 wires each row.
The cuttings - I have contacted a local vineyard that has been expanding - it turns out they have developed a rootstock excess to their requirements so they have allowed me to relieve them of enough cuttings to grow 6 rows of Chardonnay, and 5 rows of Pinot.
A mate with a back hoe is coming on the weekend to dig the rows over and prepare the soil - adding nutrients and mounding the rows.
I have decided to install irrigation pipes at this time as well and am now looking for donations of 12mm poly pipe.
Around each cutting I will be installing a tube to encorage vertical growth.
And if you believe any of this, you have been sucked in because this entire EDIT has been made by Tasadam using my moderator powers to, most unethically, edit a post by the site admin...
How big is that block?
