Table grape trial 2020... to be installed at Alcalde, Los Lunas and Farmington ASCs |
| Daniel Goodrich, NMSU Viticulture Program Coordinator, uses a handi-jack to remove old end posts from a plot located at the Alcalde ASC north of Espanola, NM (photo credit: Ms. Jacque Cormier) |
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| Malbec on the move at Las Cruces..photo taken last week (photo credit: Ms. Jacque Cormier) |
On Monday March 16th Jacque Cormier and Daniel Goodrich manually dug out all
the PVC sprinkler heads, and the next day used a hand cranked ratchet to rip out the trellis
anchors. Apparently the sprinklers had to be removed
by hand because if he used the tractor ripper it would splinter them and
has in the past popped the liquid filled tires.
Apparently the vines were put in in the 90’s and the anchors looked like
they were averaging about 14 inches of concrete about 6 inches below
the soil surface. Even after all that time they were pretty solid. The vines themselves were no longer
in great shape many of them were desiccated and some showed trunk rot
when cut in half where the cordons met at the head.
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