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Ellwood City, PA, USA

How far do you allow the vine to grow out before you start burying it?

6/3/2011 8:02:06 AM

Preston CT

I just started burying my vines and they are around 5 ft long...I leave about a foot uncovered starting at the main root area and then start mounding up the dirt over the vine...This is for air circulation later in the season and to inspect for mr. foamy....Be careful not to cover up the male flowers and 2ndaries when they are small, sometimes it distorts them when they finally pop through....

6/3/2011 8:52:14 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Bury as soon as you can....buried vineZ dont blow and twiZt in the wind......

6/3/2011 5:16:50 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Lookin for different variations of "Burying Vines" ? Seems to be different ideas of what burying means? Do you just cover enough to allow secondary roots to grow, & help stabilize plant from wind... or do you really bury it!!! Permanently!! I guess this varies on where you live, but wanting to know what folks in diff areas do? Peace, Wayne

6/4/2011 12:37:34 AM

Ellwood City, PA, USA

Good question Wayne. I too was wondering how deep the vine should be buried. On videos I have seen, the trench was just dug out with a hoe, the vine layed in it and the dirt pushed back over. That wouldn't be very deep. I suppose it is sufficient. I am trying this method for the first time this year, so I too am curious about what other folks have done and what their success was like.

6/4/2011 9:52:03 PM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

Drainage is perhaps the most important consideration when deciding whether to bury or to cover vines.

My soil is well-drained, so I use a three-corner hoe to dig a three-inch deep trench ahead of the vine, add mycor and kelp meal, and then bury.

My preference would be to simply cover vines, but that allows for an interim period of no root establishment and risk of damage due to high winds. I've been burned before.

6/5/2011 3:42:00 AM

Owensboro, Ky.

Sorta thinkin (dangerous, I know!!!) that I have read of folks covering/burying vines...till roots are established, and then uncovering to allow for air to vines (guessing to help eliminate rotting due to moisture)? BTW, Envy...seeing pic's in diaries of vines buried almost from the point they touch down!!! 2ndary ?...cover or bury w/ soil from patch or something else? Compost? Peace, Wayne

6/5/2011 1:35:39 PM

Colorado

Ive got sandy loam soil. i like to lay the secondaries into a trench. this helps maximize roots and helps the plant with not getting rolled by the wind. In low humidity colorado have never had any vine rot issues doing it that way

6/5/2011 6:06:44 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Same here cojoe, I pre-trench in front of the secondaries and let them fall into place. A pinch of mycorr and humic acid and cover back up. Here's a pic....

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=110426

6/5/2011 8:49:04 PM

Preston CT

I don't trench much as my soil can be wet....and I will go back and uncover main later in season so it can breath. The covering of main also helps with vine bore deterence...

6/6/2011 6:18:19 AM

Ellwood City, PA, USA

Thank you all for the advice.

6/9/2011 7:53:01 AM