Thursday, April 12, 2012

Vine pruning and other things


                                           My sweet new bike

There is a park near my house with vines pruned in all of the different ways they have been since grapes have been around.

                                           A low lying type of pruning good for cold because you can bury it in the                                                 winter.
                                                     Pruning for very steep vineyards good because you can walk in a                                                      zigzag between the vines.

                                           Name: Niedere Pfalzer Erziehung, Another low lying pruning style for                                                      cold weather. very hard to harvest though.

                                          Name: Offene Lyraerziehung, This style is good for allot of grapes.
                                                     Baumerziehung: the first style of grape training ever not very practical
                                           Geschlossener Kammertbau: A roman style good if you don't                                                                    have any metal.
                                          A trellis
                                           Pergola: Another non-metal style.
                                            Hone Pfalzer Erziehung: a primitive type of metal trellis.
                                           Offener Kammertbau: Another non-metal style.

                                           Don't have much info on those last two.
                                                     Flachbogen: not that different from the pruning around                                                                              here think it is good for mechanical pruning.
                                           Umkehrerziehung: don't know the story behind this.
                                           Pfaheirziehung:
                                           Just some cool looking vines don't know what their called.
                                           Vineyard snails good for making escargot.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Life around Ranchbach

                                           One of the vineyards little tractors.
                                           A weird little fungus I found.
                                           Close up of one of the vines.
                                           Steep vineyards.
                                           The forest mostly chestnut.

                                           Chestnuts in their pods.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

some picture around the house

                                                     Our house in Ranchbach
                                                     A trail I wish I had roller skis for
                                           Ediths store in the house.
                                                     Cool little red squirrel.

                                           Fermentation tanks
                                           Barlauch a wild chive like plant we harvested to make pesto.
                                           Vines that are pruned the same way Franz prunes his.
                                           The castle at the end of our valley
                                           Flowering tree in the vineyard.
                                           Trail above Ranchbach.
                                           Ranchbach
                                                     grape hyacinths in the vineyard

Friday, March 23, 2012

making bread

                                          Ediths wood fired bread oven.
                                         Pastries with meat and veggies in them.
                                          More yummies with chocolate and apple paste inside.
                                         In the process of making them.
                                          In the oven
                                          Fresh loaves
                                          Some members of the house think I should be beaten and left in the street.