OK, true this was a test post, but if I leave it up maybe it will give me incentive to put up a whole post on grape planting pictures.

Blessings, Betty
OK, true this was a test post, but if I leave it up maybe it will give me incentive to put up a whole post on grape planting pictures.

Blessings, Betty
Last night temperatures got down to 32′ degrees in our Vineyards. There was hard freeze on the pickup. There was moisture on the vines, but only slight freeze on the vines and leaves. This evening and in a few days we will know more about any damage.
Bingham Family Vineyards is promoting three Texas wines – 2019 Dirt Farmer, 2022 Cloudburst, and 2020 Reserve Tempranillo.
Yes, I said hail, not freeze. We seem to be so preoccupied with late spring freezes that we forget about the other hazards of growing grapes on the High Plains. Hail being one of them. During the last rain which we had on Sunday morning on the 25th, we had hail some hail. Cliff went…
Well, the test results came back from the grapes that were sampled last Friday. No need to test again till this Friday. Now we can turn our interest to our new sorting and press machinery that we are putting in at our barn. Concrete work was delayed by the rains that we had a…
Vineyard Update for May 19, 2020 Looks a little like sloppy pruning, but it was all done with skill and thoughtfullness. We so appreciate our vineyard workers that are local, but are seasonal workers. We hope to be able to give them more seasonal work soon as we get our tasting rooms opened for sales…
Drought on the Texas High Plains may prevent the Binghams from planting their organic row crops, but irrigation will provide for the grapes in the vineyards.