>It’s time to get out into the vineyards and finish off the pruning.

Do it to early and you risk frost damage.

Leave it too late and you risk bleeding sap from the pruning cut.

Prune the vines back to one cane and trim to length, otherwise you’ll have billions of minute grapes, providing no juice at all.

Now, we certainly wouldn’t want that, would we?

No juice = no wine = one unhappy me.

This is definitely RSI-territory.

The modern way to do is to hook up your secateurs to a generator and clip away pneumatically, leaving the detritus on the ground for the female of species to entwine into expensive wreaths.

Like a hot knife through butter.

Just don’t get your fingers in the way…

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