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South of Buffalo

Make sure your keeping up with burying or anchoring the mains down. With all the rain here in WNY I didn't bury yesterday, too mushy, but had some bamboo hold the main of my 1738 in place. Wind and rain all night and I came out this morning to find 3 feet of main rolled over. No breaks or kinks. its now buried and staked.

6/16/2015 9:00:34 AM

South Hero, VT

The main vine is to be protected at all costs. Something that Dave Bhaskaran taught me many years ago, when I was first starting.

I didn't do that one windy night last year, and the tip of a 1059 vincent-McGill snapped off. This year, ALL of my plants have tip protection.

6/16/2015 10:16:12 AM

Jericho Vermont

Be careful in your thoughts to bury if the ground is over saturated. I did bury in 2013 and was greated with numerous flooding rain storms. The plants just stopped growing as the oxygen was depleted a couple of inches below ground. June has been very wet again this year and I am considering not burying but applying numerous bamboo stakes to help keep plant stable. I would rather lose a couple vine areas, preferably not the main, as opposed to shutting growth down.

6/16/2015 11:35:19 AM

East Jordan, MI

Yes, it always pays to keep everything anchored and buried.

we always put about a yard of dirt in our shed when it is dry, so we can use it to bury with when we have torrential downpours, just go get a 5 gallon bucket full and get to work.

6/16/2015 8:34:49 PM