Field notes from a 0.22 ha vineyard in Poland: frost automation, disease models, sensors and the day-to-day of running a small vineyard on real data.
The classic forecast gives one number for tomorrow night. Google DeepMind's WeatherNext generates dozens of scenarios and turns frost and spray decisions into probabilities. What that changes for a small vineyard.
For three weeks in July our irrigation watered the lawn almost every night - even when 18 mm of rain fell. The weather station said it was dry. How a clogged rain gauge and free Open-Meteo taught us not to trust a single sensor.
We're building our own sensor to monitor the microclimate right at the vine leaf - where fungal disease risk is actually decided. AHT15, LoRa, cloud integration.
