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
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“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…
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