With my vines

Summer has finally arrived. No more rain and 80 degree days. While spraying sulpher on the vines today, I realized that the powdery mildew had not taken hold, the fruit set much better this year and the number of bunches seems to be much higher this year. All of this is likely due to three factors, I heavily pruned the vines this year, a very cold and wet spring (we had rain into early June, how is that for global warming?) and I have been watering since the rains have stopped. I did not have time to fertilize with manure this year but this does not seem to have affected the vines in the least. All in all a great start to this years growing season. Now, if Bacus can repeat the cold (less the rain) weather this fall, maybe the grapes will hang for a long slow maturation!