Weather Report Week Ending 16/3/07
Maximum Temperature for the week 36.3C (97F) on Sat.
Minimum Temperature for the week 9.2C (49F) on Tue.
Rainfall for the Week 0.0mm (0 points) 0 days of rain.
Weather data thanks to BOM & Nuriootpa Viticulture Research Centre.
Two very hot days this week, but most of the rest of the week has been very nice.
This week in the vineyard:
We have now finished the last of our Shiraz. The last 2 blocks went to Barossa Valley Estate on Wednesday. We still have Cabernet and Grenache to pick, the Cabernet is due to come off on Monday morning. I am now beginning to think about how we will manage our vineyard over the next 12 months, normally we will put a winter cereal crop in to be mowed and used as a source of organic carbon and mulch. This coming year we look like having very little good quality irrigation water available to us, so I am seriously thinking about conserving as much available soil moisture as I can by not planting a cover crop at all. This will have implications as to what (if any) cultivation we do in the next month or so. Today's photo is of a bunch of Cabernet that will be picked in the next 24 hours.
Maximum Temperature for the week 36.3C (97F) on Sat.
Minimum Temperature for the week 9.2C (49F) on Tue.
Rainfall for the Week 0.0mm (0 points) 0 days of rain.
Weather data thanks to BOM & Nuriootpa Viticulture Research Centre.
Two very hot days this week, but most of the rest of the week has been very nice.
This week in the vineyard:
We have now finished the last of our Shiraz. The last 2 blocks went to Barossa Valley Estate on Wednesday. We still have Cabernet and Grenache to pick, the Cabernet is due to come off on Monday morning. I am now beginning to think about how we will manage our vineyard over the next 12 months, normally we will put a winter cereal crop in to be mowed and used as a source of organic carbon and mulch. This coming year we look like having very little good quality irrigation water available to us, so I am seriously thinking about conserving as much available soil moisture as I can by not planting a cover crop at all. This will have implications as to what (if any) cultivation we do in the next month or so. Today's photo is of a bunch of Cabernet that will be picked in the next 24 hours.
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