The season has sterted well so far and the new shoots are growing nicely. Our team has done a great job of taking off excessive shoots. Now we have to wait until the shoots are long enough to hold them within the wires. If this work is done too early, the strong NZ winds would slap the shoots against the wires and cut off the heads.
And the frost season is not over yet. I remember the 10th of November 2006 when a very bad frost had hit us and ruined a great portion of our crop.
This season so far the wind machines had done a good job and we haven’t had any frost damage yet.