How I laborer on Labor Day

Borrowed a Dearborn plow from the in-laws.

Broke ground on the new vineyard.

I used a Dearborn 2-bottom plow, and a dearborn disk to break ground for my vinyard a year ago. It did a fine job. I have 6 rows around 250 feet long, enough for 200 wine grapes. In Illinois, you say? They are going strong here. We planted cold-hardy French hybirds developed in Minnesota.

Where are you located?

Next time, I'm going to hit the rows with RoundUp to kill the weeds, and use a subsoiler or middle buster to really break down the turf before I plow or rototill it. That way, weeds won't be a problem, and I won't have to weed whip the rows- a job I can do without.

Let me know if you wanna talk more about grapes.