My Backyard Vineyard: Season 3: Episode 3: Soil Analysis and Amendments
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- It's import to analyze your soils early so that you can make early amendments to the soil in Spring and prevent any mineral deficiency problems before they arise. In this video, I show the results of my soil analysis and show how I treated my soils for pH adjustment, boron deficiency and potassium deficiency.
Whoa, Grant, amazing job!
I just discovered your channel yesterday and finished watching the Backyard Vineyard playlist today. I really appreciate the highly scientific approach and well-documented experiments. This is exactly what all paper books lack and is essential for those without prior outdoor experience.
I've subscribed, so I hope you'll have the resources to continue this series. It's truly outstanding and an underrated format.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much. I am happy that you find it useful. I do plan to continue at least for several more years.
Amazing job Grant! I discovered your channel yesterday and I could not stop watching.
Congratulations on condensing so much information and articulating it so well. It is helping with my tempranillo vines!
Cheers from the Ribera de Duero, Spain!
Thank you so much for your appreciative comments. I am glad that you find it so useful. It means a lot to me to produce something of value to others.
You may not have noticed or you might not mind but you left your full address in the video on your analysis report. In RUclips Studio I believe you can do minimal editing of an active video. One of the options is to add a blur over things in the video.
Ok thanks!
Problem resolved! Thanks for the blur tip!
Hi Grant. I am working on a small vineyard in lawn. How do you keep the circle patch around base clear of grass?
First I dug out all of the grass. Then with a shovel or trowel, I recut the edges making them a little wider. Hand pulling as well. That's it. NO HERBICIDES!
@@grantcramer you just hand pull every few weeks for the maintenance? I'm located in the mid west, different grass types. Can I email you a quick photo of my setup and see if I'm doing anything wrong?
Sure, send me a photo. My grass doesn't grow that fast. Maybe once of month weeding is all that is needed, and it usually is only certain places.
@@grantcramer your edu email fine?
Yes
I use Yara fertilizers in my vineyard, Typically yaras 15-15-15 about a cup per vine per year, along with up to a half cup if needed of potassium. My big issue is micronutrients I am so depleted tht I cant find a viable economical way to get them to my vines outside of spraying a bunch of frequent foliar sprays to keep them happy.
Have you done a petiole or plant tissue analysis? Soil analysis? If so, what were your results?
@@grantcramer Yes, Vines were deficient as expected as the nutrients are not in the soil, I can get them on the low side of normal with a bunch of sprays. But Im trying to solve the soil side of it.
Lots of manure can provide the nutrients. Algal sprays can also help. Do you have sandy soil?
@@grantcramer I have no access to manure and compost is prohibitively expensive. I do have sandy soil. Which means that anything I do add tends to leach out and doesnt stick around.