I’ve been glad to see the amount of growth that my vines have undergone in the past few weeks. As we neared this third week of May, I have been keeping my fingers crossed as I have had vines get burned by frost this week each of the past two years. Saturday night we got down to 41F - but no lower. And looking at the weather forecast, it looks like I might have avoided a late spring frost for this season. This is good news as it serves to lengthen my growing season a little bit - and every day counts!

Since budbreak, I have had 2 or 3 vines stop growing altogether and it has become apparent that the gophers have been at work once again. I am working on a plan to control the gophers and will share more info once I know what I’m going to do.