Planting our First Vineyard (This time it worked): Chapter 7
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- čas přidán 11. 10. 2023
- We live in a medieval castle with a huge, derelict estate in southern France. Follow our ambitious garden projects, from vineyards to formal gardens, tropical plants to self-sustainability. Our project is enormous and our enthusiasm contagious. We'd love you to join us.
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Great to see this channel alive again ❤
More to come!
How wonderful to see the vines all planted and growing well!
Great choice of music to accent a beautiful accomplshment! Marc, it was touching to see you pause before the significant moment of beginnng to plant. That moment showed such a sincere form of gratitude. Your family's attachment to this project has been so clear so many times. Thank you for sharing your dream with us.
Survive little grapvines!
Marc, Jason, John and Dave(?) did a really great job in the vineyard! I didn’t know that even the distance between the vines is regulated!
As a wine lover, I am really pleased to witness the creation of a vineyard. Looking forward to see the birth of the next great wine!
Heartwarming to see the care with which everyone approached the creation of the vineyard. We live in Saskatchewan, Canada where, for decades - at least - the water table has been impacted by drought. My husband and I don't farm, but we are surrounded by fields of wheat, legumes, and canola and we pay even more attention now to the weather than when we lived in more populated areas. Your vines reminded me of the saplings my husband has planted on our land in attempts to reforest some of our land. It's a sharp learning curve to know where and what to plant and how to ensure the plants are watered when needed most. It's such a humbling experience to tend to the soil and the plants. I can see you folks understand that. Wonderful to watch you create your lives together in such a beautiful (and demanding) setting. Thank you for sharing this part of you lives and work with us.
Great progress!!! I’m so happy that the vines did well during the heat wave!!! I hope the alternating deluge and drought will have them sending their roots deep for next year.
🤔 I wonder if grape-leaf fed deer tastes like it’s had a good marinade. I know here, back when my dad used to bow-hunt, I preferred the ones that lived by pilfering from the corn fields south and west of the city, compared to the ones we had that lived off oak forests to the north. I just realized, yours will also have been eating chestnuts. 🤤😉 (Dad hunted using a recurve bow, not the pulley-powered modern things where a child can pull 40 lbs. We didn’t get to eat venison every year.)
Great digger driver! I had to chuckle at the music you chose. In the 1990’s, there was a TV commercial in Japan for Caterpillar tractors that showed a similar sized digger “dancing” to that tune in a field. 😁
I was wondering how the vines were doing. Such back breaking work! And so many regulations! Please continue to vlog about the vineyard. We are all enjoying your progress.
🤣 “Oh dear/deer, Bambi left his footsteps around the vines.” 🤣 Marc, you are a treasure! Or at least your jokes make one groan as if weighed down with some. 😁
Great to see the start of your vineyard 😁
Very interesting to see grape vines being planted from the beginning.
This vineyard planting vlog will be wonderful for your descendents to watch how this empty field became their vineyard. ❤. Making memories!
Oh Bambi, naughty Bambi!
Looking beautiful and hoping your hard work produces some wonderful grapes for wine production! Bravo 🍇🍇
Deer! The bane of my garden! 😒
Hope the vineyard survives all of the things nature throws at it,
and gives you a great harvest in time. ❤️😊
I'm always amazed by how fast grapes grow. Thanks for sharing this adventure.
We planted some grapes on our farm, just for our use. Can’t wait to see how yours turn out. Great episode!! Lots of love from Tennessee!!
This was great! It turned out to be a little bit before-and-after which was a good contrast to see. Thank you. Go vineyard!
So exciting. Well done to all the workers and to Marc for planning it all and taking care of it. A great achievement ❤
If you want to keep deer away from any plants collect your egg shells, crunch them up and sprinkle them around the plant/ area the deer will stay away they hate it smells of eggs. They smell like sulfur to the deer. The egg shells will also disintegrate and add calcium. Thank you.
PESTBANG has a range of repellents in the fight against chewing pests. Deer,Rabbits,Hares,Wallabies,Horses and Possums if they are problem where you live.Resistant to light and rain degradation and environmentally friendly..
Bambi won't bother your vines as much if you spray some wolf urine along the edges of your plot. In America it is also common to run heavy fishing line around a plot about a meter above the soil, doesn't need to be real tight.
The deer are in my yard every night but have stayed out of my garden thanks to the solar powered ultrasonic deer machines I put in the 4 corners of my garden. It emits a high pitched sound that I don't hear but the deer hear it & don't like it.
I loved the digger waltz. I giggled for ages
Fascinating! Good luck with your vineyard! 🥰
I love Marc’s passion and knowledge! Well done all! It was actually great to see the planting and the progress update in one video!
Great video, Marc! So happy to see all of the progress with the vines. I can't wait to order some wine from your vineyard to be delivered here to the US, and to drink a glass.
Vines are all looking healthy
You are so happy to get started, your smile says it all. We have several vineyards around here (Virginia) and the plants are so neat and tidy, all in the rows and well tended, so pretty.
“Oh deer! Bambi left his footsteps around the vine…”😂
Oh deer! I go out daily and check for hoof prints, as we have several that wander through the garden. Bambi's not so cute as he once was. This is such an exciting video, and so good to see the growth a few months later without having to wait! Good luck!
I feel I’ve waited forever to see this programme. It’s great and well worth the wait. Good lick with your vigneron life.
Looking great,Marc. The soil looks amazing now that it has been worked well to expose the fertile layer under the hard pack on top. The grape vines appear to love the field so far👏🏻🥰. Now let’s hope the deer leave enough of them to get good growth and root systems😮
A new vineyard. And I was able to watch it from the beginning. Looking forward to seeing the progress 😊
I LOVE IT MARC! A BEGINNING TO A NEW REGIONAL WINE. 4 -5 YEARS? VERY EXCITING ❤
Well done!! As South Africans where plants need to be nurtured quite well, my husband and I were very surprised to see the vines took off so well. Here with us we have a strict discipline how to plant. Even mass plantings happen like this: We never make a round hole like i saw the British and the EU is doing. After we made the square whole double the size of the roots and the width of the plant, we place the plant in the hole, then we throw the first soil in the hole. If we filled it half way with soil, we need to pull the plant up to "the plant Level" on the stem so that the roots can point downwards and the soil must not press the roots upwards past the stem.. The plant level is very important that the plant don't suffocate because it is planted too deep. Most common reason here that a newly planted plant does not grow is because it is planted too deep in the ground. Then we will fill the hole with all the remaining soil that came out of the hole plus the extra compost we work into the hole. Then we step next to the roots to make the ground sturdy around the plant and we will start to wet it. When planting in clay soil, we start to wet when the hole is empty and when half filled another amount of water and then finally when all the soil is in the hole, we finally wet it. I see on all the vlogs how easily with little care plants are growing in Europe. It is so special. Hope you will have great joy and success with that vineyard.
It's not so much little care that's required, just different. I think there are quite different requirements depending on soil and climate. A lot of what you describe about preparing the holes is for the purpose of drainage and allowing the roots to grow. When the digger came he decompacted all of the soil, which would allow the roots to grow through - it's effectively doing what you're doing by digging a larger hole and then returning loose soil to it. It's also not clay soil here so the drainage is good, which helps in the preparation of the soil. Vines were traditionally planted in areas where there was soil that helped them to grow rather than hindered them. What you're seeing now is vineyards grown where they have been for many hundreds of years, because they're only planted in places which are already inherently friendly to grow vines and produce good wine. By creating new vineyards in other countries in modern times, we're putting them perhaps into places that are not naturally friendly to vine growth, and therefore require a lot more effort to help them thrive. There are plenty of places in Europe, and even France, where vines wouldn't survive without huge effort and care. So we just don't grow them there!
Thank you for your kind and interesting reply. Yes certainly!! With great effort the small South African wine industry always compare themselves with the ancient French wine industry. we love your vlogs.@@LostGardensofChateauRosieres
Marc. The progress is amazing. Your own vineyard is a huge undertaking but will be so rewarding. Yes deer can always be an issue I don’t have a vineyard but i grow roses. The deer love to move through my garden at night and eat the rosebuds and new growth. So frustrating. You and Amy are so hardworking. Love watching your videos. Deborah from North Carolina 😊😊❤
Your vineyard is beautiful. Very impressed with growth. Doesn’t look like any (many?) were lost!
So happy that you got your vineyard planted 🎉🎊🤩Bonne chance 😍😘
Mark you could do that digger we know you could. Wear is your little jeep so you don't have to run back and forth? Wow I bet your all super tired. Wow can't believe how fast those grew. It looks great!
The vines are beautiful! Fine work, guys!
How rewarding to see all those new green leaves growing, wonderful nature!
Welcome back! Great video with interesting content. Looking forward to others
They've grown so much already! Good job! 😄
Looking forward to see your vines growing strong!
The plants look great! 🍇😊
This is so Amazing Marc having your own vineyard that’s magical
This was fascinating learning about planting and seeing them grow, Thank you for sharing, Great job !
Congratulations!! This is an encouraging start for all your dreams & hard work to plant your own vineyard!
Thank you for sharing the beginnings of the vineyard. I’ll enjoy watching the progress!
Great video. Super digger driver. Best of luck with your vineyard.
So glad to see your progress, it is going to be wonderful.
Wow, this is impressive. I love seeing the beginning of new life in the soil.
Would a battery-operated electric fence help keep the deer out?
Wow, that was a quick growth - I wish you luck with this Vineyard !
Thanks for sharing!
Amazing results after all your hard work during winter and illness .🎉😊
So glad to get an update, I wondered what happened!
Wonderful to see you and your progress. Well done!
Oh deer 😂😂😂 hoping your hard work will pay off 🤞🤞🤞💪💪💪 it's great to see more of you again 😉👍
Cheers to your research and hard work ! Looking forward to your progress and success !
Cheers ❤❤❤❤
Looks like you had some good helpers there.
The earth looks succulent 😊
Great.
Woohoo!!! 🎉🎉🎉 How exciting!
Hello lovelies x
I am soooooooo excited for you guys!!! Nothing more tantalizing than a vineyard ❤❤ Hahahah.....love the digger waltz...Mark if you had a toy like that I am sure you would become proficient at it. Such a science to growing things. When I get to France I want to come visit you guys for sure!!!! Will pray for the vines 🙏
BEST WISHES TO YOU
Good start, good to see you guys
lovely to see
That looks really great 😃
Most interesting--I wish your vineyard all success.
Excited to see the progress you guys have made!
Looking great! Will be exciting to see the vineyard tall and lush in a few years. Have I missed a palm tree update?
No that’s still in the backlog of videos to edit!!!
@@LostGardensofChateauRosieres Your lives are so hectic, no idea how you accomplish all and get some sleep now and again. A huge estate, your children, a ton of cute animals, and all those projects! I am in awe
What a great team. Sending lots of good wishes for rain and perfect conditions to get these vines established. Mark’s knowledge and expertise on all things is astounding. 👏🏻👏🏻
Congratulations! It’s the same way you plant bear root roses. I once saw a vineyard which had a rose planted at the end of each row.😊
This is so exciting!! I got my first grapes off my vines, this year!! I cant wait to see how yours thrive!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Marc has such reverance for the land!!!
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So interesting. Thank you.
Vin de Roche Rosière, appellation controlé 😘
I was wondering about this.. so exciting ❤ looks awesome
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Brilliant xxx
Wonderful that you had help and marc you look like a kid on christmas lol so happy 😅😊😊❤
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Thankyou for this series. I’m really enjoying the focus on the grounds and agricultural aspects. I’m also learning lots of ‘stuff’ and finding it so interesting. I had no idea of the rules and regulations you guys have to abide by. Off to binge watch the rest of this series and catch up on all your pursuits. 😊
Great to hear!
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Question: I can understand why there would be a minimum distance between plants, but what is the reason for setting a maximum distance?
Marc explained this to me afterwards. It’s because there needs to be a certain amount of stress on the vines to produce sufficiently sweet grapes to make wine in this appellation.
Félicitations à toi, Marc 🎉🎈
Did the excavator makes the lines in the soil when levelling it, or were they created by something else - it looks great! I love a freshly prepared field.
It must be satisfying to know that the soil's been prepared properly.
Wondering if anyone use deer fencing, in Cornas 🤔
I've just been reading about irrigation 😮😮
This is going to be really interesting to learn about, thanks Marc!
Glad you enjoyed it! Nobody seems to use deer fences around vineyards. I'm not really sure why! Maybe because they're not a major problem and the fences would cost more than the loss of a few vines and not be that effective! I think the lines were accidental by the digger!
Bonjour bonsoir Congratulations my loves you now have a winery I enjoyed watching the preparation of the soil the propagation of the vines so interesting Mark is an up and coming wine grower I look forward to the years ahead Chateau de Roseries vintage wine enchante💖💖😍😍👌👌🍸🍸🌟
I just realised how far the vineyard is from Rosieres. If it takes a car over 1 hour, then a tractor is driving more than 3 hours I guess?
Yep! That’s why it’s not really viable to use our own tractor. In fact I think it would be more like three hours each way!
I have been worried. I use a product here in the states called Love Your Soil, it helps keep soil from becoming compacted. Never disappoints. Jonathan Green. Gypsum derivative formulated with humates, calcium, iron, sulfur, and molasses. Wonder if you can find something similar.
Dont drop those plum stones into that lovely soft soil. They sprout easily and are so difficult to get out again!
Good job
You couldn’t start a vineyard on your property?
Yes we’re starting several at ours too but we’re a little high in elevation so it will be quite experimental. Cornas is a well known appellation and this is part of our work as a nascent wine business.
Very interesting! I know there’s a wine that is made of frozen grapes. Excited to see how it works out. Here in Ontario Canada we have Niagra fall and Niagara on the lake very famous for its wine and wine tasting tours! Best of luck …
How exciting!
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