By the end of year #1 the vineyard looked like the image to the far right. Not grape producing but a good first year and the weeds at the base of every vine are very much appreciated by Squirt, and way better looking then what we started with.
The site of Safari Creek vineyard has been a normal backyard since 1986 when we bought the property. But in 2014 we decided to turn an eye sore into a vineyard. The image at the right is how our vineyard looked for 28 years. It has been home to Squirt our 80+ pound tortoise for many years. The image shows his two igloo homes and a dry field with no food for a tortoise. Well that was before the vineyard and the establishment of Safari Creek Winery!!!!
So we contracted with Diablo Vineyards to transform this dry field into a 120 vine, Chardonnay vineyard.
They informed me that deer like vineyards too so needed to install a deer fence. Additionally the short Squirt fence shown in the before image needed to be upgraded. By February the vineyard was in and planted as this image shows.
By the end of year #1 the vineyard looked like the image to the far right. Not grape producing but a good first year and the weeds at the base of every vine are very much appreciated by Squirt, and way better looking then what we started with.