Ice Saints add strawberries, asparagus and grapevines

The ice saints, which started on Monday, May 11th, brought minus degrees again with them in the Rhn-Grabfeld district and thereby affected the plants. The radiation vineyard is also affected. While the winegrowers around Wrzburg have to predict a failure of around 80 percent according to initial forecasts, around 99 percent of the shoots in the radiation vineyard fell victim to frost. “We, that is 30 hobby winemakers, were completely caught. Applying a winter tile did not help, nor did cutting the grass short between the vines. Only where frost gel candles were set up was there less damage But there were far too few, “said Johannes Hmpfner, mayor and managing director of Weinberg GbR.

Hmpfner noted in this regard that the special vineyard warmers are an expensive and time-consuming thing. The radiation vineyard runs on a hobby basis in contrast to the large ones on the Main Loop. These were first shaken by the corona effects and now by the frost.

Radiant hobby winemakers still have a spark of hope

In radiation, one now hopes to drive out the buds that are still asleep and that neither storm nor hail will destroy the last spark of hope. The vines are still in shock. Perhaps there is still a breath of life in the shoots of the vines and if the summer is as warm as forecast, you can still harvest a few grapes.

Friedrich Mller, one of the 30 amateur winegrowers, looked a little relaxed at his six rows of Mller-Thurgau. Anyway, he didn’t expect the first harvest until next year. However, he was somewhat shocked by the overall condition of the radiation vineyard with a view of the village during an assessment round. “Hope dies last,” said Mller and Hmpfner, because you couldn’t change anything anymore and the ice saints had their name wrongly.

All above-ground and ready-to-harvest asparagus shoots have frozen

Christian’s strawberry and poultry farm near Euenhausen also has to contend with the effects of the ice saints. Both the strawberries and the green asparagus are affected. Daniela Hoch, who runs the farm with her husband Christian, reports: “It has been freezing in strawberries for two weeks in April and it is still difficult to estimate. But we assume that half is gone.” Efforts such as sprinkling frost protection and covering with straw would have been undertaken, but the damage was still great.

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With green asparagus, it has caught all the above-ground shoots on the total area of ​​eight hectares. All the sticks that were waiting to be harvested are frozen. In contrast to the strawberry plants, the highs could not take any protective measures with the asparagus: “It might have been with mini tunnels, but we don’t have them,” explains Hoch. But the asparagus still has potential in the roots, but it still pushes new asparagus spears over the course of the season. Due to the frost, however, you now have a week’s break from harvesting asparagus until the new one has grown back so far.

Protective measures were again taken for strawberries

The start of the season for strawberries is definitely postponed due to frost damage, says Hoch. Because strawberries no longer grow on the frozen flowers and new flowers have to be formed again. With asparagus there would be a delay of one week until the asparagus spears were long enough to be harvested.

In order to be protected from frost again, the strawberries were covered with additional straw. Because the flowers try to come to light in sunshine and push themselves through the straw. It could also happen that the wind blows the straw away, said Hoch.

High: There is frost every year, only the extent is much larger this time

Despite the expected financial implications, they are looking to the future with confidence at Christian’s strawberry and poultry farm: “As farmers, we always have the risk of land frost. There are soil frosts every year, sometimes more and sometimes less.” With strawberries, it is even common for some of the flowers to freeze. The extent of the frost damage during the night from Monday to Tuesday was, however, far above the usual, Hoch said. How big the effects of the recent frost were in the end, can only be said at the end of the harvest season.

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• Radiations

• Euenhausen

• Andreas Greubel

• Andreas Sietz

• Ice Saints

• Friedrich Mller

• hazards

• hail

• Cold and frost

• Farmers and farmers

• Damage and losses

• Vineyards

• Weingrtner

• Wine bars

• wind

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