ZABIBU

I am now back from Lake Turkana, and a quick trip through some wine country in France to visit my father and mother in law. The cold and misty weather of June and July has gone and the sunshine we have had these last few weeks has hardened the canes and we have sufficient wood on them now to be able to prune. This sunshine will have been good for the fruiting buds.

It been an incredibly frustating month for John Dolier of Naivasha vineyards who has been trying to get the shipment of Dormex through Kenya customs. Dormex is the growth regulator that we paint on the buds just after pruning to force a two week winter. As all the winegrowers in Kenya need Dormex and as we are all about to prune the vines we have had to hold back until this shipment came through. Paper work has taken a long time. It does seem that the government departments concerned continualy add to the list of documents needed to get anything out of the clearing house. But it is now here and we are all set to go.

I will be posting again more frequently ……now that I am back at the farm.