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- Carefully cultivate the grapevine in the tub and successfully overwinter
- Drainage in the bucket is a must
- Loving care compensates for location disadvantages
- Thus, a vine in the bucket winters
- Tips & Tricks
Carefully cultivate the grapevine in the tub and successfully overwinter
It amazes even experienced hobby gardeners that a grapevine thrives in the bucket. Screen walls on paved surfaces can thus be beautifully landscaped. What care the grapevine expects and how to hibernate, read here.
Drainage in the bucket is a must
Indispensable when potting is a drainage above the water drain in the ground. Suitable materials are crushed potsherds, expanded clay or grit. Spread out a fleece over it so that no earth crumbs clog the inorganic material layer.
As a substrate, we recommend a structurally stable mixture of two parts of potting soil and one part each of compost and perlite or expanded clay. A handful of peat or loam soil provides the desired, slightly acidic pH of 5.5 to 7.5.
Loving care compensates for location disadvantages
Not every hobby gardener cultivates his grapevine in the mild wine-growing climate. The robust climbers thrive in rougher locations. In this case, choose early ripening grape varieties that will settle for less sunshine and will not proliferate. If the following care is added, nothing stands in the way of a magnificent growth and a fruity grape harvest:
Ideal for pouring is collected rainwater. Ideally, you water vines in the bucket with pond water because they contain valuable nutrients.
Thus, a vine in the bucket winters
Grape vines are naturally frost-resistant and survive in all regions the cold season in the open air. In bucket culture, on the other hand, there is the danger that the almost unprotected root ball will freeze over in frosty temperatures. If a cool, frost-free winter quarters are available, it should be used. How to hibernate outdoors:
Tips & Tricks
If the temperature rises to over 12 degrees Celsius in winter quarters, unwanted premature spewing sets in. This circumstance does not prove to be a mishap if, in this exceptional case, you do not carry the grapevine in the tub until mid-May. In the weeks before, the tender shoots are too endangered by late frosts.
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