Often housewives have grown cucumbers with an unpleasant bitterness. Let's see why this is happening. How to avoid it and to grow tasty vegetables on his plot.
Why grow bitter cucumber
The bitterness in the fruit appears due to development of a large number of kukurbitatsina. This substance is a plant protective function. The cucumber is contained in the leaves and roots of plants.
Development of the fruit itself begins when the conditions become uncomfortable for proper growth, cucumbers become bitter.
The reasons for developing kukurbitatsina
- Sudden changes in temperature.
- Irregular watering. Lack of moisture, as well as its excessive amount recognized the taste of cucumber. Moderate watering - basic criterion for tasty fruits. In good weather, cucumbers provide twice-watering - morning and evening.
Water should be defended and warm (not below 25 degrees) If there was a drought for a long time, it is impossible sharply to fill the plants start small, gradually returning to the normal amount of water.
- The lack of fertilizer. During the growing culture is necessary to feed the soil. In this case, proven themselves nitrogen fertilizers, urea or manure. These fertilizers are used in the early stages of growing cucumbers. When appearing ovaries can go on feeding the ash.
Important! Do not use nitrogen fertilizers and ash at the same time.
What to do with bitter cucumber
If the cucumbers grown still an unpleasant bitterness - that's no reason to throw them out. With proper processing of the taste can be eliminated in several ways:
· If only bitter peel, simply cut and clean fruit. Then use cucumber as intended.
· If kukurbitatsin accumulated not only in the skin, but also in the fruit you need to soak them in water for 12 hours. Cucumbers cut and immersed in water. During the period of soaking water must be changed several times.
· Salt breaks down and removes kukurbitatsin. To do this, cleaned and chopped fruits, immerse them in saline solution for a few hours, then washed and dried. Bitterness should leave.
· Bitter cucumbers recommended for canning, salting. This is the best way to get rid of the rancid taste and later treat yourself and your loved ones delicious blanks. No one will suspect that these cucumbers once bitter.
To avoid bitterness when growing, it is important to provide good growing conditions, then you will collect delicious and crunchy pickles!
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