A clever way of watering grapes from the honored agronomist of the Russian Federation Nikolai Kurdyumov
I want to share with you a trick, which was invented and proposed long ago (in my memory about 18-20 years ago) by the honored agronomist Nikolai Kurdyumov.
The trick concerns watering the grapes, thanks to which it gains more moisture, and the berries increase in size, the sugaryness leaves the grapes, and the skin becomes softer.
So, I will not open America if I say that rare bottom watering is preferable for grapes. We will apply it.
To water the grapes to a depth of half a meter, I dig in an old iron (preferably galvanized) bucket without a bottom, dig in under the crown and no closer than 40 cm from the trunk.
The wife pours stones, gravel, pebbles inside this bucket... I install a vertical pipe in the crushed stone - sometimes a drainage pipe, and sometimes an ordinary iron pipe. I put a bottle on the iron (as in the photo):
We fill the bucket with earth. And in these pipes we will water the grapes - with a weak pressure for 2-3 hours.
Thanks to this system, the water better reaches the deep roots (and not useless surface ones), and the berry becomes 20-30% larger.
The method is suitable for all stone fruit plants.