Tomorrow we start putting in the vine stakes, 3” pipe end posts and the rebar for the grape vines. Sounds pretty simple but we have to put in 662 stakes, 176 end posts and 2295 pieces of rebar for the 2916 vines. In addition we are going to start to put in 1200’ of 4 foot deep gopher wire around the vineyard next week. One of the local vineyard managers laughed at us saying gophers will go 7 feet deep.

I found it interesting that the truck load just backed up into the proposed vineyard and dumped it all on the ground. I guess it does not really matter since we are going to be moving it all in the next few days. Amazing how much steel you get for $11K.