Place in the loggia is convenient to use as a mini garden or a greenhouse, if not a full-fledged garden plot. Area allows you to plant some bushes right crop to get to the table useful vitamins products.
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How to plant zucchini
Pumpkin shrubs possess strong growth. In the garden bush 1 is able to capture area of at least 1 sq. m. These features should be considered when growing vegetables on the balcony.
The root system of the plants is not very developed and mainly consists of surface roots. The depth of the box for normal growth zucchini 1 can not exceed 15-25 cm, and its linear dimensions be approximately 40x40 or 50x50 cm. At you can put 2 of the box end of the balcony.
To squash the whip does not interfere move on the loggia, it is possible to tie up to the railing or trellis specially arranged. Unlike cucumbers or pumpkins, zucchini not form long lashes, but even spray varieties have thick creeping stem 50 cm long and large leaves with long petioles.
In addition to practical use (obtaining vegetable production), the cultivation of squash on the balcony allow unusually decorate it. In the season of mass flowering bushes are decorative, and large whisks emit a pleasant honey aroma. Younger fruits can be painted in yellow, green and almost black shades, have striped varieties.
How to choose a variety of squash for balcony
When buying seeds, you need a good understanding of what zucchini suitable for balconies, and how best to grow in the beds. The main selection criterion - a compact bush. Given the limited volume of soil and space these plants will give a better yield than the climbing varieties.
For commodity products to the table to choose the most early hybrids. Several zucchini begins to fasten the first fruits already after 1.5 months after planting. Fruiting shrubs continues throughout the summer, and ripened squash can be kept to about the middle of winter.
For cultivation in the balcony particularly good such hybrids and varieties:
- Dinar F1. Compact, early (42 days from sowing to the first fruits). The skin is thin and bright. The flesh is dense, greenish, with a sweetish taste.
- Beloplodnye. Painting of white skin, even in a mature state. The starting date of fruiting - 44 days. The bush is compact, the average weight of a mature fruit - 900 g, but is removed from Zelentsy weight to 500 g
- Odessa 52. The fruits of zucchini Tall, with poorly developed seeds. Peel the dark, tender flesh is white. Start of fruiting - 40 days.
- Kavili F1. Self-pollinated hybrid, when grown in a closed balcony does not require artificial pollination. The peel is light green, structurally unstable even when overripening. It begins to bear fruit after 40-45 days after sowing.
- Goldberry, bananas and other varieties zheltoplodnye. Many of them belong to the zucchini and form small seeds. Slim and long fruit contains sweet yellow flesh and in the time of formation of the ovary brightly colored. Bushes zheltoplodnyh varieties especially decorative and fruits contain high amounts of carotene and useful for children.
When choosing any variety it is important to ensure timely watering the plants: in a small container, the soil dries quickly. A large amount of juicy fruit requires a lot of water and nutrients. In the season of mass fruiting of squash on the balcony should be fed complex fertilizer every 2 weeks. Watering is carried out on a daily basis, maintaining a constant humidity of the soil.
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