An amazing vegetable crop that is consumed unripe is cucumbers. They are popular all over the world. Pumpkin family vegetable native to India. There are many varieties that differ in maturity and purpose. Salad cucumbers are used primarily for fresh consumption. They are included in all kinds of vegetable salads. Pickles are suitable for canning. For this, small vegetables are used. Noteworthy is the variety of cucumbers Parisian gherkin, which is distinguished by its universal application. It is equally good in freshly prepared salads, in pickles and in canned vegetables. The cucumber Parisian gherkin has excellent taste.
Description
This variety has early ripening.
Fruiting occurs forty or forty-five days after planting. Bee pollinated plant. Therefore, it is grown in open ground or in spring film greenhouses, which can be accessed by pollinating insects. Good yield is mainly due to the female type of flowering. The early ripening dates go well with pickling qualities.
Cucumber Parisian gherkin is a dense greenhouse of small size. Fruits reach a length of six to eleven centimeters. They are very dense, fusiform. Crispy greenery is distinguished by the absence of bitterness. Short coarse tuberous fruits covered with black small spikes. Conveyor fruiting requires regular harvesting. Unripe fruits are harvested every two to three days. This contributes to the formation of new greens. Up to four kilograms of excellent vegetable products are removed from one square meter with good care. The mass of the cucumber reaches from fifty to ninety-five grams.
In addition to excellent taste, this variety is resistant to disease. These include powdery mildew, downy mildew, scab. Cucumbers Parisian gherkin tolerate adverse weather conditions.
How to speed up fruiting?
This variety is grown in various ways. Each of them corresponds to a certain timing of sowing seeds. To accelerate the harvest in seedlings, the cucumber Parisian gherkin is cultivated. Growing seedlings allows for two weeks to accelerate the harvest.
Cucumber seeds are sown in cups. This prevents damage to the
root system of young plants while placing them on the bed. If there are three or four leaves, cucumbers can be moved to the open ground. The timing of this event depends on the weather. The main condition for its implementation is the onset of sustainable heat. By this time, the soil should warm up to twelve degrees. To avoid damage to seedlings by spring short-term drops in air temperature, temporary shelters are used. In spring film greenhouses, you can plant a cucumber Parisian gherkin. Growing in such structures allows early sowing of seeds directly into the shelter soil. This can be done at the end of April.
Planting and care in film greenhouses
Cucumber Parisian gherkin is a thermophilic and hygrophilous plant. It is demanding on soil fertility. This vegetable crop grows strongly, forming long lashes. Therefore, when planting seedlings or sowing seeds, this characteristic property of cucumbers is taken into account.
Plant density should be at least three plants per square meter. Care in unheated film greenhouses consists in loosening the soil, regular watering with warm water. Every ten days they fertilize. As top dressing, slurry or urea solution is used, which is prepared at the rate of ten grams per ten liters of water. Cucumber Parisian gherkin has long lashes, which in the conditions of film greenhouses are arranged vertically and tied up.
Outdoor Landing
Plots with fertile soil with good air and water permeability are assigned to cucumber beds. The best predecessors for cucumbers are considered such crops as tomato, peas and early potatoes. Cucumber Parisian gherkin is sown in open ground with pre-prepared seeds. They are deepened into the soil to two centimeters.
The plant density is five or seven pieces per square meter. Sowing dates are determined by weather conditions. Germination of seeds depends on soil temperature. It should be at least twelve or fourteen degrees. At lower temperatures, seed germination is reduced. In favorable weather conditions, the first sprouts will appear in seven or ten days. If the threat of frost has not passed, the beds are protected with covering material.
Cultivation and care
Vegetable beds should be kept clean. Regular weeding and removal of weeds is carried out . Continuous loosening of the soil is also necessary. The entire growth period of cucumbers should be provided with a sufficient amount of water. During the formation of the fruit, cucumber Parisian gherkin will require constant hydration. Reviews of vegetable growers suggest that scattered hose irrigation should not be used. Water should not fall on the leaves of the plant. Moisturize the soil around the bushes. With insufficient watering, the leaves wither, the whole plant suffers.
An early and plentiful harvest will please the cucumber gherkin of Paris. In the period of growth and fruiting, fertilizer is necessary. Gherkins will be continuously formed subject to good nutrition. It can be provided by carrying out four-time feeding. The first fertilizer application occurs at the beginning of flowering. To prepare top dressing for ten liters of water, you need a tablespoon of nitrophoska and a glass of granulated chicken droppings. During the formation of fruits, cucumbers need nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. After removing the first crop, a second top dressing is carried out. The following fertilizer application must be done every two weeks. For irrigation use a solution of the following composition:
- a teaspoon of potassium sulfate;
- two glasses of mullein;
- ten liters of water.
Trellis cultivation
The variety is characterized by average bush growth. However, rather long lashes form the Cucumber Gherkin of Paris. Reviews of vegetable growers, fans of this variety, indicate that this vegetable crop grows well and bears fruit on the trellis. Those who used this method confirm its effectiveness. First of all, plant care is simplified.
The cucumber vine mounted on the trellis is well ventilated. Contact with soil is reduced. This helps to reduce diseases and increases the fruiting period. Cucumber Gherkin of Paris will not be injured when harvesting. Zelentsy are not polluted by the earth after rainfall. The tapestry method helps to increase the yield of high-quality gherkins.