Just to keep ourselves busy, we have 2 more vineyards added to the list of works for this season, both of them old vines (60-plus years old) and alberello trained but unfortunately in a bit of a chaos and to be radically re-pruned to maximum 3 shoulders.
Although I don’t like the X-mas period or other holidays at all (“coma” periods), I made an exception this year. I bought myself a nice X-mas present: a new generation electric pruning scissors!
Although being rather old fashioned in my pruning techniques, using the double handed big traditional scissors which are besides being beautifully handcrafted also extremely efficient and clean-cutting, my new toy proved to be a real blast! The cut is clean and with the power and opening one can cut through shoulders in no time!
There is only one problem: Aki becoming worried I will be even more tempted to search for more desperate old vineyards…