Summer Works
Reassembly of wire
The vegetation taking of the width, it is necessary to guide the vegetation. For that, a new operation consists in retaining the bits in disordered growth by iron wire tended on the rows, making it possible to rectify the branches and to prevent their breakage in the event of strong gale.
Training
Once the sufficient growth of the bits, it is necessary to disentangle the bits among each foot and to separate them all while rectifying upwards them as much as possible. It is Training. The bits of the various stocks are separate using staples which will be removed after the fall of the sheets. The quality of training avoids accumulations of vegetation and limits the rot on the grapes.
Topping and Trimming
It is the operation of size in green. The control of the vegetation is obtained by a regular and precise cut bits using a machine on the top, initially (it is topping), and then on the top and with the dimensions ones after training (it is trimming). This control of vegetation makes it possible to preserve an ideal ratio between photosynthesis (sheets and bits) and the vintage (bunches to be matured) and to make it possible to benefit the maximum of the hours of sun to the vine.
Reasoned treatments
The cryptogrammic diseases are dependent on the percentage of moisture in the vines. The Champagne is a very wet area. It thus should be protected from all these attacks in rule of the micro-organism. But, with the field, this defence does not concern the systematic one. The warnings of the SRPV (Society regional de protection des végétaux) and especially a meticulous observation in the vine make it possible to make the decisions of treatment. Moreover "clean" techniques of protection are privileged. “Sexual confusion” for example, (technique allowing to fight against the worms of the bunch by air flood of a biological molecule imitating the molecule location of the butterflies females by the males making impossible their fecundation) enabled us to no use any insect-killer in 2004! The chemical are always selected according to their respect of fauna and the flora (Typhlodrome, ladybirds...)
