Frost hardy types of wine
Unless you happen to live in a wine-growing region, you should plant particularly frost-hardy vine varieties. In the table below we have the currently most popular varieties listed for you:
also read
- Grow broad beans in your own garden
- Grow woodruff in your own garden
- Grow millet in your own garden
| variety | properties | maturing time | taste |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakemont | fungus-resistant, few seeds, yellow to green | September to October | Sweet |
| Phoenix | Wind and fungus resistant, yellow to green | August to September | aromatic sweet |
| vanessa | hardy, very healthy, few seeds, pink-red | September | Sweet |
| Bianca | resistant to fungi, very frost hardy, Hungarian breed, green-yellow | August to September | sweet with a hint of spice |
| regent | hardy, resistant to fungi, friendly to insects, blue-violet | September to October | aromatic sweet |
| Isabella | Extremely resistant to fungi, hardy, blue | August to September | sweet with a clear aroma of wild berries |
All of these varieties have hermaphroditic flowers and are self-pollinating. Pollination is mainly by the wind.
location and soil
Even frost-hardy grapes need a place in full sun for good fruit yield. A south-facing house wall that stores heat is ideal in cooler regions.
Wine makes no special demands on the soil. The vines thrive in normal, deep, slightly humid garden floor Good.
planting
Grapevines are usually offered as container goods. You can plant these from spring to summer.
- Dig a planting hole at least fifty centimeters deep.
- Loosen the subsoil very well.
- Place the vine in at an angle, pointing towards the trellis.
- The grafting point must necessarily be above ground level.
- Fill with substrate and water well.
Care
It is important that you have enough space to the right and left of the main shoot for the training of the vine, because over the years a single vine can grow up to six meters wide. A trellis of support posts with stretched wires or a wooden framework is therefore essential. along which you can direct the tendrils.
- In the spring, feed the wine with compost or an organic fertilizer that is not too rich in nitrogen.
- The vines are pruned in June. Then also remove the shoots growing around the root.
- Two infructescences are left per shoot, one or two leaves remain above them.
- You can leave stinging shoots sprouting from the leaf axils of the new shoots.
If you value wine as a privacy screen and if a rich harvest is of secondary importance, you can simply leave the plant to its own devices and simply shorten shoots that are too long.
tips
You can recognize the correct ripeness of the grapes by the stalks that are gradually becoming woody. The berries have then developed the color typical of the variety. You can store surplus crops in the refrigerator or in a cool, airy cellar for some time.
