Ja Koos was in Dorpshuis in Calitzdorp. Certainly a must see. This was a very nice surprise for us here who missed most of the KKNK. I still think this must have been the best of the whole festival. We also had a show of Stef Kruger added as a bonus.
April and May is usually the clean up months. The preparation for new plantings is also done. We will take out about 2 ha of mostly apricots but also a small bit of Hanepoot. The plantings consists of apricots (Super Gold cultivar) and wine grapes (Chenin blanc and Colombar).
The new developement will make it possible for us to enlarge our production area but also expand our irrigation to the old family farm, Herminashof. This means that more than 90 percent of our farm will be able to be irrigated via drippers or micro irrigation. Certainly great for a dry arid region like Calitzdorp.
We also planning to enlarge on of our irrigation dams. This means that our total irrigation system will become four different units. We are looking at a smaller little project which will use another dam which we have to enlarge which will bring our total usable dams to 7.
Well this week we will flood irrigate our last time this season and still no rain. Calitzdorp certainly needs a very cold and wet winter.
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