New Year’s Eve 2008 – All tubed up

It’s taken 20 days to make and tube the 3000 vines. We lost a week over Christmas (and the weekends!) so really only 12 working days. It’s not bad going, considering that Zakrey has done the last 1500 or so single handed… well almost – I did about 20 and made a 1000 tubes. Zakrey is worth his little Rasta weight in gold (moroccan?).

The statistics:
4 kilometres of tetrapak – weighing in at ~ a third of a tonne (360kg)
4 kilometres of sisal twine
40,000 staples
6 staple guns (4 defunct!)
3 pairs of scissors
0 cuts or grazes
Personally I walked 5 kilometres distributing tubes to the yard; and drove 520 kms to collect tetrapak from Kaap Agri in Grabouw as we/they ran out of the stuff 3 times.

I estimate that we already have 10% of the vines ‘out of the tube’.

See Di demonstrating the vine’s ability to recognise the cordon wire.
Tomorrow is a holiday (for Zakrey) and then on Friday the 2nd of January 2009 we start to weed and prune and train.