I spent a few hours this weekend in the vineyard doing the typical fall duties of cleaning up skeletonized grape clusters, tying up vines and just doing some up-close visual inspections of the vines. In all, the vines had a good summer. This, despite the fact that I was physically unable to tend to them for the latter half of the summer. Due to a back injury I ended up *donating* my crop to the local birds. Oh well, there’s always next year.

I’m pondering what to do with the Valiant vines. 4 of the 6 vines are either dead or near death. I am thinking about planting Prairie Star cuttings in three of the spots next spring and the following year filling in the remainder of the row with Marquette vines. Or I could just plant the entire row in Marquette.