Saving the GRAPES !! by laurame86

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business · @laurame86 · Jul 22 '16

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Saving the GRAPES !!

This is a story about how Swiss Winery's had to save their wine-grapes in the very unusual, cold nights we had this spring.
http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii544/laurameier86/eaa97069-f3a7-40a5-998a-613805316d61_zpstt6ji7ru.jpg

The weather in Switzerland was strange this year. We had changes from very hot to very cold inner short times, what is not typical for Switzerland.
There was a weather forecast for the coming night, it said that it's going to be subzero-temperatures.

For the Grapes it was a very critical situation. They were in a growing-state where they are very sensitive. If it's getting too cold, they could all freeze and that would mean the lost of the whole harvest.

The wine-growers had to save their Grapes..
So they tried to heat up with fire stations between the vines..
http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii544/laurameier86/IMG_2205_zpslnyqd8oc.jpg

http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii544/laurameier86/13051502_1764970270403658_7362481790724787678_n_zpswvny5pby.jpg

They set up hundrets of fire stations:
http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii544/laurameier86/IMG_2204_zpswgpuevox.jpg

http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii544/laurameier86/2696286_w974h649q75v20032_275678254_zpseitoytua.jpg

It looked so impressive..
http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii544/laurameier86/Frostkerzen-GE-149624_zpswzmersqh.jpg

http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii544/laurameier86/13103428_1764970293736989_6968998041692503581_n_zpsnrtu7ngm.jpg

Others tried to prevent freezing by watering..
http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii544/laurameier86/IMG_2209_zpsjfjpimbk.jpg

I am not sure, but as far as I know, they could save a big part of their Grapes :)

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@calaber24p · Jul 22 '16

The pictures are pretty amazing, must take so much work to make sure the grapes don't freeze on an off year.

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@laurame86 · Jul 22 '16

Oh yeah, it's much work.. ;)

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@jed78 · Jul 22 '16

They do the same thing down in south Texas with the citrus crops, put a bunch of fire pots out in the orchards to warm the trees up just enough from freezing. 
The bright spot is , they hardly ever get a hard freeze down there!

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@kingg · Jul 23 '16

Damn seems like a hell of a lot of work

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