VINEYARDS AND VOLCANOS

MILES AND MILES OF VINEYARDS

TOO MUCH MULCH!...

...VOLCANO MULCHING IN BUFFALO

Thursday, 10:00 AM.  Buffalo, NY,  It is a gorgeous day along the shores of Lake Erie, clear skies and  temperatures is the mid-seventies.  We are here on a mission to help our oldest daughter Greta replace her car, which expired here about three weeks ago.  This has necessitated a trip form Wisconsin to Ohio to here.
  Driving west through the Niagara Region yesterday we went through about seventy-five miles of vineyard country, the manicured rows looking very green and robust.  I believe these to be mostly culinary grapes, but I imagine they grow wine grapes as well, although the latter usually demand warmer, drier conditions than  exist here.  Anyway it is an impressive sight, probably ignored, and unknown to most of the travelers along I90.
   Here in Buffalo I came across some prime examples of "volcano" mulching; wood mulch piled in a cone around the trunks of trees, all as neat as can be.  Mulch should be no more than 4" deep over the tree roots, and kept clear of the trunk itself.
   Hoping to complete our task today, we will head back to Ohio tomorrow.