Pre-pruning the Crenshaw Cru front yard vineyard to force dormancy скачать в хорошем качестве

Pre-pruning the Crenshaw Cru front yard vineyard to force dormancy

In South Los Angeles, vinifera grape vines (Syrah in this case) tend not to go dormant and drop their leaves like they do in areas with colder winters. It seldom gets below 40 degrees Farenheit in the winter in Los Angeles, so if vines are in a warm spot they will continue to have a canopy of green leaves into January if you let them. We don't let them. This video shows how we organically tend the Crenshaw Cru vineyard to force dormancy, create a natural leaf mulch compost, and protect the vines from infection. We do this by "long pruning" the vines in mid-December, and stripping the leaves off the vines. There is a lot of hand-tending hard work, which may not scale to a large vineyard without a lot of hands. But this is an example of how to practice organic viticulture in warm, urban areas of small scale, high density production. Crenshaw Cru is a permaculture ecosystem that we call a wine garden, in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles, and is the estate vineyard of Centralas. Crenshaw Cru is more than a front yard vineyard. We farm avocados, pomegranates, mangoes, macadamia nuts, lemons, papayas, figs, apples, oranges, limes, prickly pears, vegetables, herbs, chickens, bees, worms, and many species of flowers, cover crops, edible plants, and innumerable fungus and soil flora and fauna. We have turned our urban "yard" into a biodiverse, high density, permaculture ecosystem of edible and drinkable and beneficial plants that add to our and our community's health and happiness and connection to the earth.