During the avitaminosis, after winter, it really wants juicy, young cucumbers, with their wonderful aroma and sweetish taste. In stores cucumbers, of course, in a free sale, but they look like paper and can be harmful. Another option is properly grown and environmentally friendly. If you can, time and desire to start a couple of beds, why not do it. The only question is how to grow cucumbers in the open soil?
How to grow cucumbers in the open soil - preparation of seedlings
Cucumbers are universal in that their sowing can be carried out and sprouted by seeds, and seedlings, and dry seeds. Experienced gardens are more inclined to a method with clumsy seeds and hardened.
If you still grow seedlings, you should know several rules:
- seeds in seedlings need to plant in light sandy soil;
- it should be remembered for quenching quenching (subjected to seeds and seedlings with lower temperatures than under normal conditions);
- it is advisable to follow the calendar schedule, which is most often indicated on the reverse side of the seed packaging.
How to grow cucumbers in the open ground - disembarking
For the landing should prepare a bed. Usually the soil is prepared since autumn, but the main thing is the other question. Before falling into an open ground, it must be neutralized from bacteria. This can be done in this way - permanganate is divorced in water and poured into each well, then it should be poured with warm water. The wells are better located in a checker order for uniform distribution of substances.
During the disembarkation, the seedlings can damage the roots of the plant. Therefore, the sprout should be shifted together with the Earth so that the upper part of the coma on one or two centimeters spoke out of the well.
Garders tend to another opinion - the cultivation is not from seedlings, and from the clouded and hardened seeds are no worse. The shoots germinate quickly and also quickly catch up with the growth planted by the seedle.
How to grow cucumbers in the open soil - the main care
- For growing cucumbers, it is important to observe the temperature conditions and humidity. The cucumber is the most active when ambient temperatures + 24 ... + 25 ° C, and relative humidity is 70-80%. The reduced temperature, for example + 10 ... + 15 ° C, can slow down and stop growth.
- It is important to organize watering properly. The greatest amount of water cucumbers require in a period of flowering and fruiting. The amount of fruits and taste depend on the quality of watering.
- Experienced gardeners are recommended to feed the plants. It is enough once every two weeks, during flowering and fruiting.
- In order for the plant to take all the nutritional components from the soil, and nothing prevented the development of the root system, it is necessary to get rid of weeds and loosen the space between the beds.
- Cucumbers - the plant is climbing and quenching. So that it does not occupy a lot of space, its growth can be directed up. For this there are many ways, but in fact, they all reduce the fact that the plant should be taped, for example, to stick. Thus, the growth of the plant does not interfere and it stretches to the rays of the sun. Moreover, it is more convenient to collect harvest with high plants.
How to grow cucumbers in the open ground - important moments
For growing cucumbers in the open ground, it is important:
- preparation of beds;
- preparation of seeds, checking on the ability to increase;
- temperature compliance, humidity and lack of drafts;
- watering plants in the right amount;
- feeding, depending on the period;
- weeding and soil looser.