We grow grapes in the suburbs. Preparation for winter
Grapes in our region - the plant is enoughrare, but in recent years significant changes have begun to appear on this issue. More and more gardeners are mastering viticulture, as it allows you to receive a considerable amount of products of excellent quality. And who will refuse the house wine?
How to protect grapes from the hardships of Russian winter?
It is simpler and cheaper to arrange an appropriateshelter. Just note that the best option is obtained only in the case when the vine was planted by all rules, and the width and depth of the planting hole were not less than 60x60 cm. In this case, between the upper edge of the soil and the recess in the hole, there is about 15cm of space in which you can turn the grapes. In the suburbs, preparation for winter is pretty simple in many respects.
The easiest way is when the vine is still young, it's juststacked in a hole (folded into a ring) and sprinkled with peat or sawdust deciduous varieties of wood. It is important to do this only in dry weather, having pre-treated the vine and the soil itself with 1-2% solution of copper sulfate. Necessarily collect all fallen grape leaves, as they are an excellent store for pathogens and pests.
Do not forget to cover the top of the poured soilsomething waterproof. The same ruberoid is quite suitable. The dryness is important here, since the moist grapes in the suburbs (the preparation for which we are discussing winter) will simply get out in the cold.
More complex options
There are other ways to organize shelters. They are more applicable just the same to adult shrubs. In this case, the vine should be laid on clean dry boards, gently pricking them. If there is no way to find boards, you can lay and peg on dry land.
Over this design it is necessary to installsupport arcs. You do not need to excel, making them out of metal or plastic, since the variant with arcs from branches is quite suitable. To hide the grapes in the suburbs turned out to be as reliable as possible, on top of this kind of "greenhouse" you need to lay the spunbond in a couple of layers. This material "breathes", passing evaporation to the outside and preventing the entry of condensate and melt water onto the vines.
It is important to provide reliable protection against brightwinter sun, which can provoke the premature awakening of the kidneys. This can be achieved by laying on your "greenhouse" spruce lapnik. This same measure would be good to protect the grapes from voracious rodents. It would be nice to put poison baits under the spruce branches.
However, if specifically in your area of strongthere are no cold weather, then you can try to cultivate unconventional grape varieties for the Moscow region. Saperavi northern and Sukriba proved to be the best. In their case, a simple shelter from the lapnika is sufficient, since it is nevertheless necessary to insure against especially strong and frosty winters.
If you do everything right, then the grapes in the suburbs (the preparation for the winter of which we were stipulated) will be rewarded by the excellent harvests and the high taste qualities of the berries.
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