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Grape Vine 



Roots 

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that " Grow 



FOR several reasons grape vines have a ten- 

 dency to work up on top of the ground, thus 

 exposing their roots to damage from the plow and 

 hoe, to say nothing of the weakening effect on the 

 vine itself. I have seen grape vines that literally 

 climbed out of the earth altogether, the lower bud 

 or ring of roots being six inches above the surface 

 of the soil, only one of the smaller roots being fast 

 to the ground. 



The first thing to do to prevent this is to set the 

 vine deeply when planting, putting the lower roots 

 a foot under ground. This, of course, means a 

 deal of hard work shoveling out the hole for the 

 young vine, and lazy hired help cannot always be 

 trusted to do this. The team and a big plow are 

 used in setting large vineyards, thus reducing the 

 hand work very much, though in old vineyards 

 and home gardens the shovel and chisel-bar must 

 do it all. 



Last spring I set five hundred two-year old 

 vines, digging the holes all by hand, making most 

 of them over a foot deep and two feet square, by 

 hard work digging five holes per hour. The vines 

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Showing how a grape vine will work up out of the 

 ground. Trim and bury the roots 



slightly, then some good surface soil was packed 

 about the roots, then two handfuls of 2-S-10 

 fertilizer, and the holes filled in with the yellow or 

 bottom soil. A 4-foot stake was set with each vine 

 on which to tie it the first two years. These vines 

 grow well and the roots almost never get in the 

 way of the plow. 



Where a vine has worked up. something can be 

 done by trimming the ends of such roots as are 

 entirely on top of the ground and burying them 

 again, pointed downward, swung around out of the 

 way of the plow. A very choice vine that has lost 

 roots can be strengthened by allowing some shoots 

 or "suckers" to grow one season and the next 

 spring, before the buds start, burying these suckers 

 as deeply and as close up to the vine as possible, 



