/PHOTO, VIDEO/ Temperatures in Berounsk fell to minus six degrees Celsius in some places during the last night. The sudden cold snap destroyed practically the entire crop for fruit growers.
In Berounska, ninety-five percent of the fruit crop froze. Winemakers and orchardists sad
| Video: Jana Hájíčková
“I want to cry. It looks like the end of the world is coming. Everything is black,” says Miloš Kopal sadly, who organizes the Litni on Berounska cooking classes. And it is precisely for this that he uses his own orchard and vineyard.
“After seven years, I had about two hundred apricots on fourteen trees, and everything froze. They are brown and fall off. The cherries are completely black, the nuts burnt. The same vineyard. And this year I was supposed to harvest wine for the first time. Only the herbs survived. Rhubarb lies. Nothing will be. It’s liquidating,” complains Kopal.
It is necessary to reheat. Candles and a grill will help prevent fruit trees from freezing
Roughly only five percent of the harvest survived in the vineyards in Karlstejn. “The frost damaged our vineyards very significantly. About ninety-five percent of the crop was frozen. We have ten hectares of vineyards, growing approximately 4,000 heads per hectare. So we have around 40,000 bushes. It’s a very sad sight,” confirms Zdeněk Beneš from the Karlštejn Winery Research Station.
