At an inspection, or when selling the vineyard, you need to show where the vines came from: the purchase invoice for the young plants and the plant passport. The Planting documents module keeps those papers with the batch of plants and links them to the rows the vines went into.
Where: VineyardElf menu → Planting documents
A batch of young plants
A batch is one purchase: variety, rootstock, supplier, number of plants and planting year. To the batch you attach:
- the invoice for the plants (number, date, amount, scan),
- the plant passport - the document accompanying nursery material, with its number and supplier details,
- the rows the vines from that batch were planted into.
Thanks to the link with rows, each row then shows which batch its vines come from and what documents exist for it.
Completeness overview
The batch list shows where an invoice or a passport is missing - far easier to chase the paper now than right before an inspection. Print overview gives you a printout of all batches with their documents.
Why keep this
A plant passport confirms the health status and identity of the material. If years later a row turns out to be virused, or the variety does not match the label, these documents are the only evidence of where the vines came from. For a vineyard that intends to state the variety on the label, this is also part of the provenance chain.