Do you remember a blog back in February, about how they are changing the idea of how to plant vines in the local area? It was in the blog called: "Changing ideas", http://laura-todayonmywanderings.blogspot.com/2007/02/changing-ideas.html.
In that blog I talk about the growers ripping out their old grape vines and preparing to replant, but no longer in the old way, from top to bottom, but across the hill. Today Clover and I decided to go back and see what has transpired over the Spring. We have been able to see a scar on the mountain from Ladenburg, but a closer look was needed.
It is pretty amazing the amount of earth that was moved in order to begin again in the "New way".
3 comments:
I wonder if the vines were diseased. It is hard to imagine that they would rip out those old vines just to modernize... Germans are usually all about tradition.
Thanks for the comments. I thought the same thing. Must be disease so I asked. Nope, just a new, (Old actually as we have been planting this way in the States for years) way of thinking. Helps with erosion and is easier to pick with machinery. You can see the changed the entire face of the mountain to facilitate the change. The old idea, the grapes followed the curvature of the mountain.
HUGE scare, which I am sure will be soon grown over, but WOW..shocking. I kept finding old vines peeking through the newly packed surface...fighting for a chance to grow and produce. Was sort of sad.
Interesting, seeing the same terrain we hiked a few months ago! What a change. But grapes grow quickly, don't they?
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