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Care of grapes

The sunny fruit has long attracted the attention of Russian gardeners. But even after the cold-resistant varieties were removed, still many owners of summer cottages have questions about how to grow grapes correctly, because this southern culture requires special attention.

Care for young grapes

Grapes propagate by cuttings, seeds or seedlings. The first method is most common. A young plant from two to four years requires special care. The gardener must ensure that the plants develop properly, quickly become stronger and rooted. Young bushes need to be protected from weeds, and the ground to loosen. After the shoots of the grapes reach eight centimeters, they are broken off, leaving on the seedlings four or five shoots on the cuttings.

It is necessary to properly form a plant to ensure a high harvest in the future. Therefore, care for grapes in the first years of life of the vine is so important. Because of this in many ways depends on its fruiting.

It is not possible to plant other crops, for example beans, in the aisle between bushes of grapes. This retards the development of the vine. At the end of June, the land covering the seedlings should be digested. Lower the soil level, you need to make a hole, the depth of which is nineteen to twenty centimeters, and then remove absolutely all the roots and shoots that are on the top of the young plant. After that, the hole should fall asleep and again create an earthen mound of former height. Such care for grapes helps develop the main roots, which, in turn, helps the plant to tolerate both drought and frost. It is also necessary to regularly go in for grapes.

Care of the plant: pruning

During pruning, you need to cut grapes as little as possible. On each arrow of the bush should be obtained two wounds: one on the fruit part, the second - on the shortest vine. During this operation on the vine leave three or four strong shoots that appeared this year. They should be shortened at a height of two meters. It is recommended to trim in autumn, when the plant is crying less, and there is no risk of its death. Shoots which the gardener considers superfluous, break out in the early spring.

Preparing grapes for winter

On the eve of winter, care for grapes includes, in addition to pruning, and hilling. It is necessary to cover the plant well to protect it from frost. It depends on this, whether the vine will wake in the spring and what the harvest will be in the summer. Grapes, if not protected for the winter, may die. Particularly vulnerable are its roots, which can not withstand the freezing of the earth below seven degrees. They can be insulated by covering with sawdust, rotted manure or compost. In the end, you can just grape the vine with the soil.

After pruning, which is necessarily included in the care of grapes, the vines are tied in bundles, laid on the ground, pegged to it. Then the plant should be covered with lapnik, tolem, and in the end - sprinkled with earth. But with this variant of storing grapes, however, its freezing is not ruled out. The best way is to cover the whips with boards, on top of them lay a roofing tape or a film (the roofing material also fits). To exclude wetting, a vine-proof material should be placed under the vine.

If all measures to protect grapes from colds have failed - and plants still suffered from frost, special measures should be taken to restore bushes. If you damage about sixty percent of the eyes and the integrity of the wood will help the usual pruning. But it is necessary to count it so that the remaining number of shoots could successfully develop fruit buds.

A little bit about pests of grapes

Care of the plant includes protection from diseases and pests.

The phylloxera is the most dangerous pest, from which the grapes die. Before planting the cuttings, the pit is treated with twenty grams of dust. Adult plants on which the aphids settled, should be watered abundantly with the solution of the preparation for fifty days.

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