A cold morning pre-pruning.
The vineyard uses the Scott Henry trellis system which is a four cane, cane pruned system, this means we remove the canes that were tied down the previous year every year, then we replace the canes with growth that occurred in the previous year, so this years canes are from 2023 the previous tied canes were from 2022.
This is done manually throughout the whole vineyard, we use secateurs in order to cut the canes back and create the canopy for the year.
Vineyard post pruning.
The vineyard looks very bare post pruning, the canes will be tied to the fruiting wire in later April or early May when a frost event is less likely to happen, in larger vineyards the tying down and pruning are often done earlier in order to be able to cover the ground but with the plot we have at the moment the pruning and tying down can be delayed which is beneficial to trying to make the vines have the best chance of having healthy canes for the year.
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