Cucumbers are one of the most popular garden crops. Do you know how to grow cucumbers in open ground? How to sow seeds, how to care for seedlings, how to grow your favorite vegetables in the garden? Let's understand everything in detail.
Sowing seeds
At the end of May, a favorable period begins for sowing the seeds of cucumbers, which lasts until June 5. Before sowing, the seeds are heated for 2 hours at a temperature of 60 degrees, then placed in a special solution (water - 1 liter, double superphosphate - 5 g, potassium nitrate - 10 g, manganese sulfate - 0.2 g) for 12 hours.
Swollen seeds can be sown with dry seeds, this ensures a high yield. Seeds are placed in grooves in three centimeters from each other, the recesses themselves are made at a distance of fifty centimeters.
Many people ask the question: " How to grow cucumbers in the open ground, if the soil is dry?" Here you need to know that the grooves in such soil must be watered before sowing the seeds, and sprinkled with peat, loose soil or a mixture of humus and sawdust on top.
Seeds planted, now you need to monitor the seedlings. If there are bird nests near the site, then strips of film or rustling paper are hung on the ridges, scattered brushwood, rotated wind rattles, and a scarecrow.
Seedling Care
How to grow cucumbers in the open field, if the plant becomes sluggish, and the leaves become lifeless? It is necessary to spill vegetable culture with warm water (up to 25 degrees) at the rate of 2 liters per square meter of area.
Also, plants need to thin out and remove the weakest. In general, thinning is recommended for a season to be carried out 2-3 times, combining it with loosening and weeding. When the stems grow, loosening is stopped. Cucumber begins to bloom a month after sowing the seeds. The appearance of the first fruits is associated with pollination: the first flowers sometimes crumble due to inactivity of bees.
The secrets of how to grow cucumbers in the open ground
The bed is made on the south side, it must be protected from the winds. Sunflowers, beans, potatoes, and corn are planted as wings. They grow quickly upward and create a favorable microclimate. You also need to pay attention to the looseness of the soil.
Seeds can be sown in pots, followed by sowing in the soil, and immediately on the bed. But watering the seeds just sown is not recommended: air is forced out by the water, and this leads to a delay in seedlings.
When we grow cucumbers in the open field, we naturally want to get as many fruits as possible. This can be achieved if you make a "warm" bed of various debris: mowed grass, chopped straw, fallen leaves, sawdust and other things. It is spilled with hot water, rammed, and then disinfected with boiling water (10 liters) with copper sulfate (1 tbsp. L.). Next, the bed is covered with a soil mixture of peat, dung humus, sawdust, turf, make mineral fertilizers and spilled again with water and copper sulphate. After that, the soil is covered with a new film.
So, we looked at how to grow cucumbers in the ground. I would also like to note that if you sow seeds of several varieties at once, then the yield will be higher. You need to feed and water vegetables in the morning at around 10 o’clock. For cucumbers, the lashes must be formed up to 1 m, then pinch the top, and pinch the side shoots by 50 cm. Well, that’s all - you have a high harvest!