In August 2019 I posted about ceasing my vineyard activities.
The plan was to just let the vines do their own thing and any subsequent occupier of the property could start things up again if they so desired.
What I didn’t take into account was that when the cattle were brought up to eat down the grass in the rows during the growing season, they would also eat the vine leaves.
So after a number of years of this happening and, with their ‘engine room’ continually removed, the vines eventually died.
Only now have I decided to dismantle the vineyard infrastructure after removing and burning the dead vines.
This involved removing the inter row posts ie.star pickets, some of which will be recycled into fence repairs. Some had been originally driven into our sandstone subsoil and refused to budge. These were broken off and what remained driven further into the ground.
The future of the vineyard specific inter row posts is up in the air.
Maybe they would be ok recycled into fence repairs.
Then came the rolling up a few hundred metres of high tension wire.
The wire strainers were removed from the end posts most of which will be used for firewood, a few for fence repairs.
The wire and strainers have been offered gratis to the neighbours, an offer already taken up by some.
Two blocks completed.
One to go.
