Growing grapes in a greenhouse: from planting to care

It's no secret that grapes are quite a valuable crop, rich in various vitamin complexes and microelements. Grapes useful for diseases of the cardiovascular system, nervous disorders and also very pleasant to the taste! But due to the climatic characteristics of certain regions of our country, this plant cannot be grown everywhere. The reason for this is low summer temperatures and short daylight hours. How to be?

Fortunately, our experienced breeders have developed a cultivation technique grapes in greenhouse conditions. Moreover, the resulting harvest is in no way inferior in taste and useful qualities to berries grown in open ground. Let's get acquainted with the peculiarities of growing grapes in a greenhouse in more detail.

Content

• Benefits of greenhouse grape cultivation
• Planting grapes in greenhouse conditions
• Care rules
• Watering features
• Diseases and pests of grapes

Benefits of greenhouse grape cultivation

Despite some features of the greenhouse method of growing grapes, this technique has its own significant advantages:

• Firstly, thanks to the use of modern technologies and an increase in the general temperature background at certain stages of life grapes, you can achieve more volume harvest compared to growing outdoors.
• Secondly, growing grapes in a greenhouse allows residents of regions with a temperate and colder climate in our country to harvest from this plant.
• Thirdly, the use of the latest techniques in greenhouses makes it possible to obtain grapes with brighter taste.

Greenhouse cultivation of grapes allows to accelerate the process of its main stages of growth, and to bring closer the period of formation and ripening of the crop. Typically, these dates are ten days ahead of the main harvest dates.

IN greenhouse grapes are reliably protected from unexpected cold snaps and early frosts.

Despite all these significant advantages obtained from growing grapes in a greenhouse method, this technique also has some disadvantages, which are expressed in more troublesome care and a certain knowledge base. But to get fragrant berries with a wonderful taste, you can work a little!

Planting grapes in greenhouse conditions

Before planting in the greenhouse grapes, it is necessary to decide on the varieties that are suitable for such cultivation. For a certain region of our country, their varieties are zoned.

So in the temperate zone of our country, it is recommended to grow the following varieties in a greenhouse method:

• Michurinsky
• Russian korinka
• Early northern
• Moscow sustainable
• Bulgaria and many others

These varieties are ideally adapted to the particular climate of the region, the influence of which can be felt even through greenhouses. The first step is to prepare the soil. For greenhouse planting of grapes, it is preferable to use a compost mixture.It is advisable to add a small amount of superphosphate and potassium-enriched wood ash to this mass. Then the resulting mixture is mixed with some of the soil in the greenhouse.

Next, planting holes are made in the ground, about fifty centimeters deep. Vines are planted in the prepared holes, well spreading their roots. Then they are buried and watered abundantly.

It is best to do this planting of vines from pots no later than February.

It is during this period that daylight hours begin to increase significantly and the air warms up. It is imperative to attach some supports to the planted vines so that they rest on them and do not fall to the ground. These designs will allow not only to protect the vines from damage, but also to keep the future harvest from rotting.

Care rules

For getting harvest grapes, even in a greenhouse, it is necessary to provide him with proper care. The most important condition for providing the plant with a timely phase change and active growth is a certain temperature regime:

• It is the maintenance of a certain temperature background that allows not only not to disrupt the course of natural growth and ripening of berries, but also to ensure an earlier harvest of the finished crop. Too much heat is harmful to plants, even during bud formation. Therefore, in order to protect the plants from the scorching sun rays, it is necessary to cover the greenhouse surface with a special net.
• To ensure an optimal temperature background in the greenhouse, many gardeners resort to ventilation services by installing vents of a certain size on the walls. This facilitates the penetration of air currents and ensures the optimal temperature regime in the greenhouse.

After landing vines in greenhouses must be pinched. In this case, it is necessary to cut off weak shoots, which will not consume the nutrients of the whole plant. Due to this, more active growth will be provided by strong twigs. Inflorescences with immature flowers should also be removed as needed. As soon as the vines become heavy and begin to evade the artificial supports, they should be additionally attached to them. Pruning sterile stems should be produced up to the level of the fifth leaf. For second-order shoots, this procedure should be carried out up to the first leaf.

Over time in the greenhouse, you need to do the thinning of the grape bunches.

To do this, take the most convenient scissors and use them to cut off the inner berries. Together with such berries, various small particles are removed on the vines. For greenhouse grapes, it is worthwhile to manually pollinate the flowers. This is done very simply: with a slight movement of the hand, twigs with blossoming inflorescences are simply shaken. Quite in rare cases, gardeners independently collect pollen from the stamens into their hands and apply it to the top of the pistil.

By autumn, it is worth cutting off long branches to the level of the initial bud. In this case, the stems are cut to two-thirds of the length. To prevent freezing of the vines in winter, the cut stems must be covered with straw, old clothes, blankets, or sawdust.

In case of landing grapes in greenhouses with removable roofs, the roof can be removed for the winter. Well-covered grapes can overwinter on their own under a blanket of snow.

Watering features

By cultivating grapes in a greenhouse, it is worth taking care of a certain irrigation regime. The future harvest depends on its saturation and timeliness.

Rules for watering grapes in a greenhouse:

• The very first watering should be done after planting grape vines in the greenhouse. This event will help accelerate the process of strengthening the roots in the soil.
• Next plentiful watering should be produced a week after planting the vines.Such watering will be necessary for roots weakened from transplantation.
• In the summer, water the vines at least once every seven days. This can prevent the soil from drying out in heat and flooding it in rainy weather.
• In the early stages of ripening grapes, watering should be done less frequently to prevent the process of cracking.
• By the way, it is not recommended to water the vines in the evening hours, this can lead to damage to the fruit.

Diseases and pests of grapes

To get a stable harvest grapes it is necessary to protect the plant from various pests and diseases... The main diseases of grapes are:

• Gray rot
• Rubella
• Mildew
• Anthracnose
• Oidium

Vines can be harmed by:

• Mites
• Bunchy leaf rollers
• Phyloxera

To fight data pests it is allowed to use special insecticides and fungicides, which are sold in specialized stores. Before using them, you must read the attached instructions in detail and prepare doses according to the indicated volumes. Both categories drugs are quite dangerous and can accumulate in the soil, so do not get carried away with their applications.

Fight data pests it is also possible through a physical method based on the collection of pests from the vines and their subsequent destruction. This method is more laborious, but ecologically safe.

It is possible to grow grapes in greenhouse conditions with success if you follow all the rules and certain patterns.

Only then are you guaranteed a reward for your efforts. Neglect of these rules will transform greenhouse cultivation technology grapes a waste of time.

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