fledgling
Smarta-- answer..."I'm waiting for the ice-wine."
Unbelievable stuff! ...The grapes must freeze on the vine for about 8 or 9 weeks, I think. It's very risky for the growers, here, for they don't know how much freeze they will get, and they don't want to risk their whole crop.
On the other hand, ice-wine is a gourmet delight, and treasured around the world, with prices to match.
You say the grapes and wine did good for you...dumping things?
Hooray!
What an experiment!
You get into the darndest adventures!
Go, girl!
F.
P.S. The birds got our grapes again this year, the second they turned sweet.
With moving here in July, and all the other things to do, we didn't construct framework for platicized netting, as we had thought to do. (String netting, and probably fine plastic netting, traps birds by their legs, and kills them.)
The vines here are volunteers, from a small vineyard years ago. Growers in this valley are erecting retractable heavy netting over larger vineyards, to keep off the birds without killing thousands...but it's slow and expensive going. The government helps.
Other growers rely on explosive sounds to scare off the birds every few minutes or so.
Maybe we'll get frames and nets up next year. Our vines are even growing into the very tall pyramid cedars that protect us from golf balls raining down on us all summer.