投稿の詳細: 灌水と雨　Irrigation and the rain.

昨日はSNSへのアクセスが
多すぎて一時的にサーバーを
接続拒否にしたらしい。
そのせいで書き込みもできなかった。
アクセスが多いといっても1万ちょっと
だけだったのだけれど。

それはさておき、
昨日今日とメルローの畑の灌水をやった。
草刈をしていて、この畑だけ特に草の伸び具合が
悪かったのだ、そういえば何日も雨らしい雨が
降っていない。田んぼのあと故、地面はがちがちだ。
また他の畑と違って改良区の灌水も入っていない。

これはまずい、粘土質の土が乾いて葡萄の
根っこを切ってしまう。それでなくても今年
挿し木した台木が枯れてしまっている。
水が無いのだ、心なしか新梢の元気も
なさそうに見える。

というわけで、4年前に一度使ったきりの
ポンプを引っ張り出して来た。さすがに
エンジンがかからない。友人の農機具工場で
調整をしてもらい、ガソリンを入れ替えて
動くようになった。というわけで昨日も
今日も手前灌水でずぶぬれになったしまった。

6年前にオーストラリアから買って来た
ドリップラインはあるので来春までには
灌水システムを完成させておこうと
思う。今年はこういう応急処置です。

灌水を始めて昨日も一瞬パラパラ、今日も3時頃に
パラパラと降ったが、何の足しにもならない。
と思っていたら午後6時頃になって、猛烈な夕立
が来た。やった、ようやく雨だ。
でも、1時間もしないで小雨に。
それでも久しぶりの雨らしい雨。
灌水もしたし、今回はこれで
一息つけたかな。
頑張ってくれ、メルロー！

The sever system refused connection
yesterday for the temporaly system protection
due to the excessive connection
and therefore I was not able to update
my blog. Just over ten thousands of connection
screwed up the system.

Going back to today's theme. I irrigated
my Merlot vineyard yesterday and today.
While mowing the vineyards, I found this
vineyard had very little weeds by comparing
with other vineyards. It reminded me of the
water stress. We had not have rain for many
days here. As the vineyard was on the rice
paddie there was no irrigation system and
the ground was very very dry.

That was not good, clay ground once dried up
would cut the thine roots of the vines.
The cuttings planted this Spring had all
died already. There was little water.
The new shoots looked a bit weak then.

As such, I pulled an old pump which
I only used once four years agao.
The engine did not start at all after
four years. I took it to my friend's
service facility to fix it.
The pump was examined and adjusted and the
fuel was drained and re-fueled. Then
the pump started working. Because of
the irrigation, I was wet to the skin
for two days.

I have drip line system in a warehouse
which I bought from Australia six year
ago. I would install such system
by next Spring. This year my irrigation
look like this.

After having started irrigation, I got a bit of
rain fall yesterday and today at around
three pm. They were too little to be a
good rainfall. But at around 6pm today,
we had a shower which stopped raining
in one hour. But it was the real rain that
we had long waited for. With the irrigation
and the shower, I hope the vines would have
a good relief. Survive my Merlots !