Spring Greening

SPRING GREENING — Recent warming and longer days have begun to awaken the region’s grapevines at a time in mid-March considered “normal” by local growers. Growers now must prepare for early spring frost warnings when too cold nights can do damage to the young green shoots. Most growers utilize overhead sprinklers to coat the buds with a protective ice jacket while others turn on large wind machines to disturb the inversion layer of colder air.
– Photo Rollie Atkinson