It is recommended to feed cucumbers with yeast in order to increase the yield of a vegetable crop and protective characteristics, accelerate ripening of fruits. The compositions are prepared using water, granulated sugar, wood ash. Funds are applied at the root or used for spraying plantings.
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Rules for introducing yeast dressings
Yeast is a natural product and is used to feed cucumbers. The tool helps to enhance the growth of vegetable crops, strengthen the roots, accelerate the ripening of fruits, etc. The advantage of feeding is budget, environmental friendliness, ease of preparation, safety. The product has a rich mineral composition. The product can be used to fertilize cucumber seedlings.
Experts recommend using yeast fertilizers no more than 3 times a season. It is optimal to use the composition for feeding cucumbers in the following intervals:
- When the first two sheets appear.
- During the formation of ovaries - the product helps to improve the immunity of vegetable crops.
- After harvesting the first harvest of cucumbers, top dressing helps to prolong fruiting, stimulates the re-formation of ovaries.
Terms of use:
- Yeast fertilizers cannot be combined with manure.
- Yeast is used for heated soil; in cool soil, fertilization reduces efficiency.
- In soil treatment or spraying, a product that has not expired is used. Expired products damage plants.
- To reduce the number of barren flowers, a little ascorbic acid is added to the yeast composition at the rate of 1 pack of dry yeast up to 2 g of the substance.
- The solution is used when transplanting cucumber seedlings no earlier than after 1-2 weeks.
Top dressing recipes
Fertilization of cucumber beds can be carried out using live yeast. The nutrient solution will require: the main component (1 kg), warm water (5 l). The product is ground, mixed with a liquid and dissolved, left in a warm place for 2 days. Before use, the dressing is diluted with settled water in a ratio of 1:10. 1 liter of yeast composition is poured under 1 cucumber bush. When growing seedlings, 1 glass of solution is enough for 1 sprout.
When growing a vegetable crop in open soil, dry yeast in containers can be used for fertilization.
To make the composition you will need:
- packaged dry yeast (10 g);
- settled water (10 l);
- granulated sugar (60 g).
The ingredients are mixed, left in a warm place for 2 hours. The product is diluted in a 1: 5 ratio and used at the rate of 1 liter per plant. The fertilizer is applied after the standard watering of the soil under the bushes.
For large plantings, you need to pour warm water into a 3 liter jar, add granulated sugar (0.5 cups), yeast (100 g) and mix, cover with gauze and put in a warm room. The composition is regularly mixed, after the completion of the fermentation process, the agent is diluted with water at the rate of 1 glass of solution for 1 bucket of settled liquid. It is required to consume feeding in 1-2 days.
Yeast solutions are also used for spraying, protection against insect pests.
Do you feed the cucumbers with yeast?
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You can also read about feeding cucumbers in the following article:How to feed cucumbers in the open field after planting