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Hampstead, NC 28443

I have noticed many growers create a mixture of dirt, compost, fertilizer, mycro, etc... to use to bury their vines with.
What is your mixture?
What percentage of each?
Thanks for your input.

4/20/2012 10:10:21 AM

Germany

Last year I used just the dirt of the patch (haven´t used any myco with my plants so far, and the fertilizers were either broadcast or dissolved in water). This year I´m inclined to try myco (both at the plant site and at the leaf nodes...half a spoon at each leaf node). The tap roots of each leaf node will grow quite alot, and therefore, IMHO, it is probably much more important to have a good patch soil throughout rather than trying to enhance fertilizer concentration in the very small area where you bury the vines.

4/20/2012 10:22:21 AM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

Scott, I make a mix of Jobes Organics, Espoma Starter Plus and Mykos that I add to the trench below each root node and scratch it in with my pointed hoe. This year I used a bag of each (6#, 4# and 2#). Sometimes I add a little bit of worm castings as well. When I run out of this mix, the root nodes farther out get just the Jobes and Espoma without the Mykos. Then I bury with garden soil. Since the roots go down and not up, I like to get my micorhizae and beneficial bacteria mixed into the soil where the roots will be growing. I apply my manure, compost and other fertilizers to the entire patch. I also dig a big hole for each main root site so it has good loose soil and plenty of nutrients as well as my "mix" to get it off to a good start. I can get away with that due to my silt loam soil; it woudn't be a good idea in clay. I view the soil covering as just material to hold the vines down so the wind doesn't whip them around and to hide them from vine borers.

4/20/2012 5:00:45 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

One item I forgot. I don't mix the worm casting together with the other products. One time I mixed them all together and after a few days it started growing a white mold that made me nervous. They get applied to the soil separately.

4/20/2012 5:03:15 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

One item I forgot. I don't mix the worm casting together with the other products. One time I mixed them all together and after a few days it started growing a white mold that made me nervous. They get applied to the soil separately.

4/20/2012 5:03:15 PM

Quincy, CA

I believe the Brysons use a mixture of compost and black dirt for vine burying.
Hard to argue with their results.

4/21/2012 1:16:22 AM

Goodwood, Ontario, Canada

The Bryson's buried their vines in horse manure. Aged of course. My plan is to disturb the soil under the vine as little as possible, as I've planted a cover crop to established a mycroriza relationship. Just a little soil and horse manure mix over the nodes for me.

4/21/2012 8:10:31 AM