Many people think about whether it is necessary to water grapes in the summer or this plant tolerates drought well and can grow safely, always giving juicy fruits. Consider several facts of whether it is worth watering the grape bush and how to do it without harm.
How is the watering of the vineyard useful?
With careful and worthy care for grapes throughout the growing, it is not necessary to water it additionally. However, if you want your crop in the fall to please you with your abundance of juicy and large fruits, it just needs to be watered throughout the summer.
Drought has a negative impact on the fruiting of grape clusters. Since in the summer in hot days of the foliage of the grape bush it evaporates more than one and a half liters of water. The soil also has to give its moisture during the ripening of the plant. Therefore, it is very useful for grapes, applying watering days in the hot summer period.
Due to the lack of water, grape berries become small, the vine develops poorly, and the foliage can simply dry. The rhizome of grapes, trying to find moisture, rapidly grows on all sides by a width of up to 2.5 m, and in height – by 14 m. This can lead to the fact that growing plants can incur significant losses.
But it is also aquest to the vineyard adversely overdoing with water. As a result of waterlogging, the roots begin to bend, and in the future, grape bushes simply fade and die. An excess of water in the ground reduces the amount of necessary nutrients that are so necessary for a healthy plant growth. Therefore, you should adhere to clear watering norms.
How to irrigate the earth in the first years of growing season?
In the first year of growing season, it is especially important to pay attention to the correct irrigation, which will subsequently allow young seedlings to take root well and form strong roots.
Since young seedlings are planted for the first time so that their roots remain deep in the ground, it is necessary to form a small recess and pour water only into the hole itself. At a distance of 30 cm from the stem in the soil, small recesses of 25 cm are made throughout the diameter, poured abundantly with water (5-15 liters), and then fall asleep again. Water should first be defended, heated and the best time for watering is the evening.
In the first season, they advise watering the soil once a week, while carefully monitor the condition of the plant. It is also necessary to add complex mineral fertilizers. After a month, the amount of watering is reduced, irrigation should be irrigated once a week. The last summer month is left the vineyard completely without watering, since under such conditions the grapes grow much better.
How to water grapes in the summer months?
In the autumn time, the vineyard accumulates moisture for wintering, but if the winter is issued low -snow, in the spring it is necessary to carry out additional moisture -generation. In summer, it is especially important to carry out vegetation irrigation so that plants develop better and give large fruitful clusters.
Depending on the grape varieties, the irrigation mode is:
The early grape variety needs autumn watering before the start of winter, as well as in the first two summer months;
irrigate in the middle of summer and the first half of August it is necessary for the average fruiting;
It is useful to moisture -generation with the latest grapes of the vineyard, starting in May, and at least four times in the summer season.
The most demanding vine of moisture is at the final stage
flowering when the kidneys have already bloomed, as well as at the time when berries begin to ripen. It is not recommended to water the land at a time when the buds are just beginning to appear. This can lead to the fact that the flowers will begin to crumble, which means that in the Grapes of grapes there will be much less fruit ovaries. To prevent cracking of grape berries, it is worth stopping irrigating the soil at a time when the berries are just starting to ripen.
For soil soil, you will need about 50 liters of water per square meter. But if, your garden is too sandy soil, then the amount of water should be increased 1.5 times. Much more effective and useful for the vineyard will moisten the soil only 2-3 times throughout the summer than to water it a little and often.
Watering methods can be diverse:
drip irrigation of the vineyard or it is also called automated watering;
Water each hole around the stem;
If the grapes are planted in rows, then it is necessary to pour water into the grooves dug in advance;
You can dig small holes in a circle of grape bushes and pour 2 liters of water into each.
Before irrigation, the soil must be well loosened in order to
moisture was better delayed and this enables the roots to be well saturated with air.
With abundant watering from buckets, it is necessary to first pour one bucket, wait until all the water is absorbed into the soil, and only then proceed to the next bucket.