Friday 17 August 2012

Not Everything A Success.

While the Phoenix and Chardonnay vines are doing well both setting a decent crop the Regent and Madeleine Angevine are not.

Just look how sparse the Regent clusters are...



And the Madeleine Angevine are no better.



When Regent are good they are fantastic but their drawback is that they don't set fruit when the weather is wet and cold at flowering, as it was this year. This is why I wouldn't recommend it as a variety for planting in the north of the country.

Madeleine Angevine often do better at setting a decent crop in adverse conditions but this year was obviously too challenging even for this hardy lady.

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