Funny how one continues to learn stuff that makes work easier or better. I have been pruning this vineyard since 1980, moving from vine to vine and assessing what goes, what stays and which are best as canes and as spurs ( for the season after next). Always, in the back of my head is my lecturer in viticulture, Max Loder from Stuttgart saying: “Nein, zat is ein spur!” Max has never left me, although I finished at Charles Sturt in 1987. What I have done this year is go around with Felco 8s (manual secateurs) and remove all the stuff that I don’t want for any purpose. Having done that, I don the electronic Felcos and then pick my canes and spurs. So, the first round is thinking “no” and the second is “yes”. That has worked for my ageing brain!
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