One of the most popular vegetables that domestic gardeners love to grow is a cucumber. It has low nutritional value and low vitamin content. However, the high taste of the cucumber, combined with a wide range of applications, allowed this vegetable to gain enormous popularity.
The reasons for "people's love"
This garden culture is canned - pickled and salted, it is used in the preparation of salads.
Cucumbers have a very positive effect on the human body: they
lower acidity in the gastric juice, promote easy digestibility of food, and are also useful for rheumatism, diabetes, kidney and liver diseases. In addition, this vegetable crop is rich in iodine. In addition, it is not difficult to grow it, the main thing is to comply with agricultural requirements, and then these green crisp gifts of nature will be constantly present on the table - both in fresh and in processed form.
Characteristics of varieties and hybrids
There are many varieties of cucumbers. They differ both in the size of the greenhouse, and its tuberosity. Different varieties have different resistance to disease, excellent types of flowering and early ripening. Varieties also differ in the degree of suitability for processing, productivity, length of the lash and even the color of the spike.
In the process of pollination of this vegetable crop, bees are mainly involved. Such varieties suitable for cultivation in open ground as Semcross F1, Othello F1, Zhuravlenok F1, Farmer F1, Palchik, as well as Libelle F1 cucumber have proven themselves well. The self-pollinating subspecies of this vegetable crop is a subclass of parthenocarpous. It includes Lapland F1, Pasalimo F1 and Blizzard F1, Metelitsa, as well as the Petersburg Express F1, Crispin F1, Red Mullet F1 and even Boy with a thumb F1. Most of them are hybrids bred relatively recently and which can be grown in greenhouses. However, the most popular variety for open ground is Libelle cucumber f1.
Description
Culture belongs to the category of bee pollinated hybrids. He has a fairly high yield. Fruits have a slightly pronounced ribbed shape. The color shades of cucumbers range from medium to deep dark green. At the same time, the taste qualities that characterize this hybrid are quite high, they are not spoiled by bitterness.
Fruits in length when properly grown reach fourteen centimeters with a mass of up to one hundred and fifty grams. The main advantage with which Libella F1 cucumber is characterized, the description of the variety of which also proves this plus, is the absence of spots and its increased resistance to powdery mildew. This vegetable is equally tasty both in fresh and in processed form. In addition, the Libelle F1 cucumber, being a mid-early hybrid, is intended both for sowing in open ground and for growing in a film greenhouse.
Fruit
The characteristics of this variety pollinated by bees are long weaving and an average degree of ripeness, as well as the stability of fruiting. The fruit, which gives the cucumber Libella F1, looks very similar to a spindle. It contains a minimum number of ribs, and also pleases not only with its appearance, but also with its unique taste.
Cucumber Libella F1, reviews of which testify to the great popularity of this hybrid, begins to bear fruit no earlier than the fiftieth day, counting from the time the seedlings appeared on the ground. The yield of the variety is quite high: it reaches ten kilograms per square meter.
Growing system
Like all other vegetable crops, Libelle F1 cucumber, reviews for which care suggests that he loves light, moisture and warmth, has an underdeveloped root system. But the part that is located above the ground has a relatively large mass. For good growth and proper development, the plant needs the following temperature conditions: for air - 25-27, and for soil - 20-22 degrees.
The emergence of various kinds of diseases begins most often when a lower rate is kept for a relatively long time. In the case when the weather is inclement and the temperature is ten degrees below average for a long time, the vegetable crop begins to slow down in development, moreover, the crop that the cucumber Libella F1 will give is in question in this case. Feedback from those who have long grown this hybrid in their plots indicates that in case of great heat, for example, at 35 ° C, fertilization will not occur.
Care Features
This late-ripening variety is characterized by long-stringing and a female type of flowering. His greenbacks in the middle lane of our country grow up to seventeen centimeters in length with a weight of 70 to 90 grams. To optimize pollination, as well as for tying the fruit to the seeds of this hybrid before sowing, experts recommend mixing planting material of some pollinator variety at the rate of ten percent of the total mass of the sown volume.
Libelle F1 cucumber, the cultivation of which requires certain agrotechnical knowledge, loves moisture very much, both in soil and in air. Its deciduous system is well developed, therefore, the evaporation of water is very intense. The key to a high yield, according to experts, is primarily regular watering, as well as good soil warming.
Soil characteristics
Plant a variety of cucumbers Libella F1 in a land rich in humus, as well as having a high degree of fertility. Not the least value for the amount of yield is the preparation of the soil before sowing, as well as the quality of the seeds. According to breeders, planting material that has been stored for three or four years is ideal for this.
Highly fertile, low-nitrogen drained soil, as well as liming of very acidic soils, are the main requirements for the land in which Libelle F1 cucumber should grow.
Reviews
Many experienced gardeners at their sites have long planted this particular hybrid. Some of them opted for this particular variety initially, and for decades, only Libelle cucumbers have been grown continuously. The reason for the popularity is that they can be equally well used both for fresh consumption, and in salads or preservation. True, judging by the reviews, sometimes the first cucumbers collected from the bush can be bitter, but this happens only in the dry summer, so in such weather you need to water regularly and plentifully. In addition, this variety is characterized by excessive overgrowing, which is characteristic when the crop is not harvested on time.
Many, judging by the reviews, plant Libella cucumbers in the open ground in early May, and so that the seeds germinate well or spring frosts can not destroy the seedlings, they cover the beds with spandon, laying this material freely on the ground, without pulling it. For the intensity of pollination, some grow a variety of cucumber Libelle F1 with "Spring F1".