Shelter vines reliable old-fashioned way.
Grapes is the southern heat-loving plants, and therefore it should be protected from severe frosts.
To grapes for the winter is not gone, it should hide. This can be done using a special ukryvochnogo material, which is sold at any hardware or specialty store.
But, not to make unnecessary spending, you can use the old-fashioned method that has never let down. The biggest advantage of this shelter is the simplicity and accessibility: the vine must cover the ground.
This method requires some physical effort, but the entire winter, you will not worry about the safety of their plants.
As the vines cover the ground right?
Before proceeding to the process, to make the deletion sick and dead branches. Fallen leaves should remove and burn to prevent the spread of infections and infestations.
Then, taking off from the vine trellises, try to bend it in different directions. Choose worth the direction in which the grapes fit without breaking. Making measurements in width and length, lift the rod back and dig a trench depth of 10-20 cm on the ground.
Then gently put the grapes and cover his land. The base of grapes covered the old potato sack, and also to send ground. This shelter will not hurt frost heat-loving plants.
Plus this shelter that vine breathes and does not rot. As soon as the weather warms, but the possibility of frost still remains, in the land of the vine begins to produce buds that do not suffer from spring frosts. When it becomes really warm, the grapes must be carefully dig up and put on a trellis.
Shelter grapes should be somewhere in the middle of October. But it all depends on the region and the weather. cover is not worth too early ptomuchto grapes begin to produce buds and sprouts.
If you do not have the time or ability to shelter vines for the winter, it is necessary to grow varieties that tolerate the winter frosts. But minus these varieties is that the fruit they are not so big and sweet, like a heat-loving grape.
Some are covered with spruce branches grapes, and on top plus another ukryvochnym breathable material. But in this case concerns added: need to go to the forest for pine branches and buying ukryvochnogo material.
So I, like most of my friends vinogradorey, sheltering vines only earth. Not even a single year the grapes are not podmerz in harvest is always glad for its abundance and quality of the grape bunches.
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