Fresh vegetables are sold in supermarkets all year round, but how can you compare these tasteless, brought from nowhere vegetables with those grown on your own plot ?! And how, after a long winter, I want vitamins, including fresh cucumbers. You can quickly get an excellent crop in the greenhouse if you are responsible for choosing a hybrid and caring for plants. Let us recall a long and well-known variety "Zozulya". These cucumbers are very pleasant to taste and give a plentiful harvest (about 10-12 kg per square meter). They go off with a bang fresh and are suitable for various processing.
The first slightly tuberous dark green fruits with pale white stripes can be harvested 46-48 days after seed germination. Due to the fact that "Zozulya" - cucumbers that form fruits without pollination by insects, the variety is great for growing in a greenhouse, greenhouse and even on the windowsill. You can harvest in the room even in winter! An indoor plant that can hang its entire window with its lashes with fruits will look original. To the listed advantages of the variety, one can add its resistance to many diseases characteristic of this vegetable crop. It is not surprising that “Zozulya” are cucumbers loved by Russian summer residents.
To get the cucumber "Zozulya", cultivation begins with the preparation of a place for sowing seeds. Dry sawdust is poured with boiling water, waiting for them to cool to a temperature of 25-28 degrees, then sowing seeds. A few days later, plants in the form of expanded cotyledons are transplanted into peat pots, where they develop before transplanting into the greenhouse. It is important to water the seedlings in a timely manner and maintain the necessary soil temperature (27-28 degrees until the seeds hatch, and 20-22 degrees afterwards). If the day is sunny, the optimum air temperature during the day is 21-23 degrees, if overcast - 19-20 and 16-17 at night.
A variety of cucumbers "Zozulya" is planted in the greenhouse after May 15, when 3-4 leaves have already grown (20-25-day-old seedlings). It is necessary to transplant plants carefully, pulling them out together with an earthen lump and trying not to damage the roots. Seedlings must be evenly distributed so that 3-3.3 plants per square meter. With proper care, it will be possible to enjoy the first cucumbers in 23-27 days. In the open ground - a little later. Do not be lazy to harvest on time, as the overgrown fruits are not so tasty and badly affect the further harvest.
In spring, we really want vitamins that contain fresh vegetables, including Zozulya. Cucumbers, most often imported, imported, unfortunately, fill our markets and shops even in the summer, so it is difficult to be sure of the quality of the goods. Who knows what chemicals were used to grow marketable products, and how long has it come? And what kind of Russian can imagine summer heat without okroshka or a feast without pickles? And salads and many other dishes, where cucumbers are far from the last place? Are not summer cottages worth crunching with freshly picked cucumbers from a garden bed or putting them into processing?