Cucumbers have turned to stronger and crispy and salted and marinated, it is necessary to know some subtleties in their cultivation.
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How to improve the yield of cucumbers
Experienced gardeners know the secrets of the cucumber crop yields, they will help each year to produce abundant harvests of vegetables:
- Cucumbers are water-loving culture. They can not stand water stagnation, but the soil in the cucumber beds should always be moist. When sustained dry weather watering should be strengthened. Watering is necessary every day, pouring through 3 liters of settled warm water in each well. If this rule is not followed, then the cucumbers suspend growth, ovary and flowers begin to crumble.
- Before flowering cucumber is better to water in the morning, and during budding and fruiting of this procedure should be carried out in the evening. In cloudy weather, watering is continued, but in smaller numbers. Water supply from the hose under pressure is not desirable, since in this case the soil is eroded and damaged roots.
- For gentle watering, you can use plastic bottles. They are filled with water and partially immersed into the soil hole close to neck down. The water in this case, moistens the soil gradually, without forming a crust.
- For cucumbers it is necessary to organize proper nutrition. While he was building up a lot of green shoots and develops, it needs nitrogen. During the period of budding and fruiting plants need phosphorus, potassium and other elements that stimulate its reproductive function.
- Often irrigated cucumber tops with warm water, it will not only preserve its freshness, but also to wash away excess fertilizer, trapped under the dressing, and will prevent the leaves from burning.
How to organize feeding
Before sowing the seeds of cucumbers treated with stimulants. The soil mixture is prepared from garden soil, washed river sand, and humus (peat) in equal proportions. The mixture in the wells must pour on the growth of shoots.
Nitrogen fertilizer do, when the first true leaf.
Not all gardeners welcome the use of chemicals on their plots and try to replace them with organic matter. The source of nitrogen is decomposed manure or compost. Cucumbers responsive to the feeding of the infusion mullein, the mother liquor is prepared in a ratio of 1 to 25, or bird droppings infusion prepared at a concentration of 1 to 25. Under normal weather conditions and good organization of the irrigation season is enough 1 nitrogen fertilization.
Complex fertilizers are applied during budding. They can be purchased in specialized shops or independently prepared: 10 liters of water dissolve 15 g of ammonium nitrate, potassium sulphate and superphosphate. With the onset of fruiting dosage is increased by 2 times. Such feeding is carried out 1 time in 2 weeks before the end of the growing season.
Express-feeding performed based on the state of plants. About nitrogen deficiency says pale color of the leaves and the pointed ends of the fruit. If cucumbers hooked with the extended tip of the stem and neck, so they do not have enough potassium. Lack of phosphorus is determined by a bluish tinge foliage.
To enrich the soil with phosphorus, as organic fertilizers used extract from bone meal. The primer can be mixed wood ash, it contains the necessary potassium.
As an organic complex fertilizer for cucumber used tincture of green mass of nettle and dandelion. As stimulants can be used yeast and milk drinks. Yeast and lactic acid bacteria in the soil begin its activity. Carbonic acid liberated creates additional power roots.
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