Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Multi row versus Single row netting...


Only one winner here. In our Georges Road vineyard in Waipara we have been busy these last two days putting the bird netting on our Riesling and Pinot Gris.
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The Riesling has multi row netting while the Pinot Gris has single row. Both blocks are the same size - approx 60 rows 2.5m apart and 160m long. The Riesling was netted and pegged down in 4 hours (one tractor and 6 people) whilst the Pinot Gris took most of one day to net (tractor and 3 people) and longer to clip up. And the beauty of the multi row nets is that you can still work on the fruit underneath the net. A no-brainer. If anyone wants to buy the singles then please contact me.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When I worked in Margaret River we used the multi row netting to keep the Kangaroos away from the fruit!