Fear and pruning Part 2 - Don't strangle the vines

Hannah explains why just one wrong move with the secateurs could herald disaster for the vineyard

“Here’s the baguette, that’s the courson, leave two eyes, OK now go” are some of the scariest words I know. I’m not the kind of person who just 'goes' at the best of times, let alone when bone-numb cold, hungover from the night before and armed with a box-sharp pair of secateurs. I’m campaigning for a name change as I don’t feel the tool’s official desi…