2015

I have only lost one vine, aurore, to winter.  The plant is drawing water up but the buds seem to be dead.  It has always suffered from a lot of disease anyway, so I will replace it next year.  I did buy a new reliant seedless but planted it in the back.

Very nice spring, plenty of rain.  I don't think we've seen things bloom this well in a long time.  Fruit and flowering trees were just fantastic.

May 2
Sprayed at half-inch shoots.  Mancozeb, Captan and Quintec.

May 10
5 to 7 inch shoots.  Some vines still slowly budding out.  Mancozeb, Nova, Captan

May 13
Just noticed two buds on the aurore I thought was dead.

May 22
Sprayed with Mancozeb, Quintec and Captan.  Cut out some dead wood prior to spraying.

June 2
Sprayed with Mancozeb, Nova and Captan.  This will be the last Mancozeb spray since it needs 66 days pre-harvest interval.  Vines are really growing, with a good amount of clusters.  This has been a fantastic spring, with everything blossoming.  Unfortunately, it looks like a couple of our Johnny Appleseed trees are in distress.

June 23
Trimmed under grapes, long overdue.  Also sprayed--long overdue--Quintec, Captan and a small dose of copper.  Will have to monitor to see how the copper affects things.  Grapes are looking great, in spite of lots of rain and high humidity.  A spray last week would have been better but it didn't happen.  Saw a few split grapes on concords, but no anthracnose spots yet on anything.  Japanese beetles are here and chewing on the upper leaves.
Picked about 9 lbs. of sour cherries today, will make a couple gallons starting tomorrow.