Hello Anthony, I love your videos! I am planning to start a small vineyard project on a land with 1000m2. How many times per month do you usually go to your vines? I know it might differ from season to season, but can you give me a rough estimate?! Cheers from Portugal
Hi there. Thank you for your message. That's a good question. Certainly during the dormant winter months the only 2 things that need doing is pruning and spraying a preventative fungal spray. Pruning i try to finish by 1 jan after which there is little to do until about April. Pruning I do a little bit each day until its done and I start that in November. Spring time when things wake up, I would say I check on them once a week as I walk the dog. May be a final spray of fungicide before bud burst. During the spring growing season. I tend not to do too much during the early stages as I also have a business that takes my attention during the week, but once summer comes i spend the weekends cutting grass, trimming the vines, leaf thinning, spraying etc and generally making sure they don't go completely out of control. I can sirens a few hours doing this I am conscious that I don't want the vineyard to completely take over my life. It's meant to be fun after all but the summer months do take some work. I would say little and often rules the day. I probably have too many vines for one person but you live and learn. I am always keen on machines or tools to speed up the process. I would say that the thing that takes the longest is setting up the vineyard in the first place ie putting on place the vines, catch wires, stakes, supports ground anchors etc. But once that's done it gets a bit easier. Good luck in Portugal, sounds amazing.
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Hello Anthony, I love your videos!
I am planning to start a small vineyard project on a land with 1000m2. How many times per month do you usually go to your vines? I know it might differ from season to season, but can you give me a rough estimate?!
Cheers from Portugal
I would say your looking at about 200 vines for that size which is maybe a day or 2 labour per month
Hi there. Thank you for your message. That's a good question. Certainly during the dormant winter months the only 2 things that need doing is pruning and spraying a preventative fungal spray. Pruning i try to finish by 1 jan after which there is little to do until about April. Pruning I do a little bit each day until its done and I start that in November.
Spring time when things wake up, I would say I check on them once a week as I walk the dog. May be a final spray of fungicide before bud burst. During the spring growing season. I tend not to do too much during the early stages as I also have a business that takes my attention during the week, but once summer comes i spend the weekends cutting grass, trimming the vines, leaf thinning, spraying etc and generally making sure they don't go completely out of control. I can sirens a few hours doing this
I am conscious that I don't want the vineyard to completely take over my life. It's meant to be fun after all but the summer months do take some work. I would say little and often rules the day. I probably have too many vines for one person but you live and learn. I am always keen on machines or tools to speed up the process. I would say that the thing that takes the longest is setting up the vineyard in the first place ie putting on place the vines, catch wires, stakes, supports ground anchors etc. But once that's done it gets a bit easier. Good luck in Portugal, sounds amazing.
@@mycountrylife810 thank you for the great summary Antony!
I'm also interested in your book, do you ship it outside UK?
Thank you!
Shoot or Cane?
I know. I get my words mixed up.
I think shoots come out of canes...
@@mycountrylife810 As I understand it: shoots will become canes next season if you dont't cut them during the winter.