Re: Trenching
Beth,
Trenching is usually done ahead of the vine so as the vine grows and lays down,
it is in the trench. You just back fill a little at a time basically before the
roots develop. Soil disturbance should be minimal.
I would go for the larger tap roots and sacrifice a few of the smaller root
hairs if necessary. As we have discovered there are plenty of them and loosing a
small percentage of them would probably not impact the plant. Each tap root
will also put out it's own hair roots.
Bob T.
Torrance, Ca.
rado1000@hotmail.com wrote:
> >I would think that trenching would refer to burying your vines in 2 >to 3
> >inch deep trenches .....alternative ..to throw a shovel full of >dirt over
> >each leaf joint ....the dirt can be washed away in the
> >watering process....
>
> But wouldn't trenching destroy those little hair roots that spread out and
> fill out all available dirt from here to Timbuktu?? I thought the idea was
> to have as many roots as possible? Should leaf-node roots be valued over
> hair roots?? We sacrifice a few hair roots because the leaf-node roots suit
> our purposes better??
>
> Beth
>
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