Good afternoon, my reader. Cucumbers are the favorite vegetables of many gardeners and gardeners, so they can be found on almost any personal plot. And there are a great many ways to grow cucumber seedlings. However, in most cases, summer residents prefer to do the initial seeding in food plastic cups.
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Therefore, today we will talk about how to properly plant cucumbers in plastic cups and then plant them on a garden bed.
How to grow cucumber seedlings in a plastic cup
- Before planting, you need to count the seeds and soak them for a day in cold (boiled) water. You can also use here and special nutrients ("Epin", "Zircon", etc.), which significantly increase the percentage of seedling germination. To do this, you need to take one or two small plates and put a piece of gauze on their bottom. After that, it is necessary to pour all the seeds onto cheesecloth and fill them with a nutrient solution so that it completely covers the future seedlings.
- While the seeds are being prepared in liquid, you need to buy twice as many plastic food cups for them. After that, half of the purchased glasses should have the bottom cut off.
- Next, you need to cut the plastic bags into small squares and make several through holes in each of them. And then insert a perforated plastic square into a whole glass. It is better to do this in such a way that the edges of the polyethylene protrude slightly beyond the edges of the container. After that, its cut-off brother is inserted into a whole glass.
- Ultimately, the following design should be obtained: in the whole glass there is a polyethylene square-sieve, in which there is a glass without a bottom. Next, it is necessary to fill (by about a third) such a "glass structure" with fertile soil. And after that, sow the seed prepared in the solution into it.
- Then the seedlings are watered and the seedlings are waited for. As they grow, you need to carefully add earth to the glass. This is necessary so that the cucumber sprout does not stretch out, but takes root well in the soil.
How to plant cucumbers in a plastic cup on a garden bed
- When the time comes to plant the grown seedlings on the garden bed, just carefully pull out a glass without a bottom from a whole glass (by the edges of the polyethylene square).
- Then remove the polyethylene and plant the cut glass (along with the sprout) in the prepared holes.
- Watering such a structure is very convenient, because the water practically does not spread over the beds.
- It should be added that the cut plastic container does not interfere with the development of cucumber shoots at all, and the roots in it grow (downward) calmly and freely.
In conclusion, it should be noted that in a similar way you can grow not only cucumber, but also squash, tomato, pumpkin and corn seedlings.
Do you know how to sow cucumbers in plastic cups?
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You can also read about mistakes when growing cucumbers in the following article:6 mistakes when growing cucumber seedlings