Grapes care in spring and summer: basic recommendations

Viticulture is an ancient occupation thatprovides us with fresh and dried grapes, and also provides raw materials for the confectionery and winemaking industries. What care is needed for grapes in spring and summer, depends on many factors. First of all, these are climatic conditions, relief, varieties and purposes of cultivation. In the north, this thermophilic culture grows to 51 degrees north latitude, although some varieties managed to be cultivated, for example, in the Leningrad Region.

What are the characteristics of growing grapes? Planting and care (pruning, watering, treatment against pests) will give good results if the crop grows on soils of light composition (not acidic, not clayey, not marshy) with enough sun. Such places on the planet are in the areas of the Mediterranean, California. On Russian homestead plots, they practice planting this plant between buildings into distinctive pockets, where the culture is protected from winds.

Grapes propagate in a vegetative way,through cuttings up to 0.3 meters long, which are harvested in autumn and stored until spring dug in the sand or in cool rooms. And in the spring they germinate to form rootlets.

Before placing the petioles in the ground (at the endApril - early May) determines the level of groundwater table. If the water is less than a meter, then you need to increase this distance to one and a half meters. The plant is planted at a depth of 0.2-0.5 meters (depending on the composition of the soil). Care of the grapes after planting is that the earth is slightly tamped, spilled by heated water (about 30-40 degrees), and the upper part of the plant hills.

Care for grape in spring and summer should be conductedfull time. If the summer is cold, then the seedlings are covered with a film. With a large amount of rain, water from landings must be diverted. On the plant, usually one or two shoots are left, the excess ones are cut off, and the rest are tied with twine to the stakes. In the spring period, you need to ensure that the eyes on the vine are not subjected to excessive alternation of temperatures. Therefore, the vine should be opened after the threat of frost disappears, and the soil after treatment is treated with iron or copper vitriol (3-5% solution).

Grapes care in spring and summer includesthe introduction of a number of nutrients. Grapes favorably apply to the feeding of bird droppings (dilute with water 50x50, insist in a warm place for 14 days, dilute 1: 5) and compost. It is also good to process planting with boric acid (0.1%) to prevent shedding of the ovaries.

Care for grape in spring and summer will give the firstThe results are only for the third year after planting the plant. This grapes is considered to be the best, so the breeders are trying to form a low vine (up to 1 meter), which in mid-August is plucked at the level of the main stem, and in the middle of October (in dry weather) is cut off in the first year. Then follows two years of shaping the stem (pruning, pinching, selecting suitable shoots), on which the first berries appear. If the third year after the correct wintering of the fruit does not appear, then the variety is not suitable for growing in this region.