The Old Wagonhouse

The Old Wagonhouse

Monday, August 2, 2010

Wine, women and .... spades

Well this month seems to contain everything. The wine part is the launch of the Withoek Shiraz the 18th of the month for the better part of the homo sapiens. The rest of us is going to wait till the 19th. We are going to bottle the Ruby Port this week. Looks like a traditional style but still sweet and very accomdating port.
The women is a bit slow out of the marks but this is apparently their right during this month. Leanne is putting together a list and she will deliver to people that indicated to me / her that they might be interested. Please give us just enough chance to prepare. So let the RSVP be about the Monday the 16th. I think that might be fair.
Well we are spading here in Withoek . Started to digg the holes for the plants. Interesting enough that is a very important part to great enough loose soil for early developement of the roots. The sides also should be a bit rough to allow the roots to enter the bigger part of the soil it is going to grow in. By digging to a small a hole you might end up with a tree / vine which may not grew up strong and be sort of limited to the hole which you dugg. You then dwarf the plant and hence smaller yields and less growth expected.
The irrigation project is also on its way this week. Digging all the necessary channels for the new pipelines and getting the irrigation system going. Quite an undertaking.
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