Nature woke up, plants and weeds grow up under the rows. A small flowers carpet cover the ground.
We'll have to avoid plants to mix with bottom leaves, to pump food contained into the soil and to contaminate leaves .
Plants transpire and are convered by dew enabling a wet area at the bottom leaves of the vine which may help to develop mildiou desease.
That's the reason why Chateau de Roquebrune is well equiped with special machines to work the soil. We can de-earth(1) 7 ha in two days. To respect nature we need huge resources to be able to interfere during the very small delay the nature gives us.
Chateau de Roquebrune use mechanical way to kill the weeds. It's the most expensive way, but the best to preserve nature.
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(1) De-earthing (déchaussage) consist in taking the earth at the bottom of the vinestock to keep it back to the middle of the row covering the weeds.
