This season's pruning was a mixture of hope and despair. Hope, thanks to the advice of Sam Doncaster as to how to prune 1 and 2 year old vines. We had never understood that even at this tender age you have to cut them back to 2 or 3 buds. It seems like infanticide but we are hoping that will be the answer to the feeble growth that characterises our vines.
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The bad news was that of the 500 Soreli vines planted last year, only a few showed any sign of life. We may be wrong. Miracles have occurred in the past with seemingly moribund plants coming back to life but we fear the worst.
We'll see.
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