Last weekend was our annual Grape Harvest. The party began on Friday night with a pot luck dinner and frozen Margaritas for the dozen friends and family who came to help us out. Just before dark we removed the nets so that we could get an early start on harvesting the next morning. We began about 7am and thanks to all the great help we had, we were finished by 8:30, just in time for mimosa’s and brunch. We even had some pigs in the trap which had to be dispatched and put out in the coyote buffet line before Buck and I could eat. Surprisingly our harvest this year was only 710 lbs, about half as much as last year. No idea why it was less, but wasps had damaged lots of individual grapes within the clusters. We were successful in keeping the raccoons at bay, but next year we will have to attack the wasp problem. Work on next years harvest is already started…Laurel sent off leaf samples for analysis so that we get started correcting any nutrient deficiencies for the 2026 crop.
Many thanks to Buck and Melanie, Jennifer and Van, Mike and Cathy, Steve, Monica, John N., William, and Rock for assisting us this year.
