tatertot09 said:
Just have to ask- was reading through your thread and saw you were doing a vineyard! What type of grapes are you growing? We got ours up and going this spring, what an undertaking! Also where at in ohio are you?
Clayton
Not entirely sure yet. I'm waiting on the soil sample results, that will push me toward one type or another, or even another.
I'm looking at possibly Steuben, Delaware, Cayuga White, Catawba, DeChaunac, Seyval Blanc, and maybe Vidal Blanc. Any of these should actually do fine here though. Still looking at root stock.
I'm putting in a little over 1/16th acre with hopefully an eventual yield of .25 to .5 tons of grapes. I'm also slowly ramping up my winery equipment from 6 gallon carboys to 15 and 30 gallon fermenters and associated grape things needed, like crates, destemmers, pumps and presses. Though I really have 2 or 3 years to acquire them before it's really needed.
I've also become friends with the winery a couple miles down the road. I've been getting all their empty bottles. I'm up to some 98 cases of empty bottles so far. A savings of around 1700 bucks if I were to purchase the bottles at my LHBS, which is not so local, and in Indiana.
I'm 40ish miles west of Toledo in a tiny town called Pettisville. We have a stop sign.
Here's what I have so far. Not much to look at, but I threw a chicken in the middle for size reference.
