For several years now, more and more gardeners have been growing a new hybrid in Russia - cucumber. The first such cucumber-melon appeared here in our country, thanks to breeders. It bears fruit to frost and is resistant to pests, however, birds are also not indifferent to its fruits.
What is the advantage of this pumpkin plant?
At a young age, the fruits are very reminiscent in shape and taste
cucumber. The more the vegetable ripens, the more it begins to resemble melon in shape and taste. The flesh in the ripe fruit is yellow-orange in color, and the crop, like all cucumbers, is multiple. The pluses include the fact that such a product matures faster than a melon, and the weight of one fruit can reach a kilogram. Convenient is the fact that you can use both ripe and unripe tasty cucumbers. Growing plants is approximately the same as cucumber and melon. Despite the fact that the plant is heat-loving, there are varieties that bear fruit well in open ground.
Growing Features
Usually cultivated with potassium permanganate seeds of cucumber are sown in a fairly moist soil, as soon as the weather becomes warm. In this case, the distance between plants should be about a meter. The first shoots appear after 5-7 days. If there was a desire to get an earlier result, then you can resort to breeding seedlings of pickles. Growing in this case will take place in pots with humus-earthen contents. It is recommended to plant seedlings a month before transfer to the ground. After regularly watered with water. It is possible to land in soil as soon as warm weather is established and frosts are not expected, since they are afraid of clumps. Growing in a greenhouse or greenhouse should begin by tearing out deep holes in which you need to pour a liter of water. Pots are placed 2-3 centimeters below the surface of the earth. Seedlings should also be planted at a distance of about a meter from each other. After that, small plants must be covered. Until the air warms up to 20 degrees, they should be under the covering material. In order for the fruits to appear earlier, the tops must be pinched. Do this when the first 3 or 4 fruits appear
cucumbers. Growing this pumpkin plant will be successful if the soil is prepared for planting in the fall.
Soil preparation
This plant is quite demanding on soil fertility. Therefore, before digging in the soil in the fall, humus (1 m 15-20 kg), ammonium nitrate (15 g), potassium sulfate, superphosphate are added to it. With the advent of spring, the soil is well loosened and maintained in a clean state before sowing. Then you get a big crop of pickles. Growing will be successful and with proper care.
Plant care
Usually it is required to make timely weeding, loosening between the beds, watering the soil where clumps grow. Growing will be successful if the breakthrough is carried out twice: when the plant has the first real leaf and when the third or fourth is formed. Simultaneously with this procedure, soil loosening is carried out - about 3-4 times. This vegetable is not capricious and feels good even during the dry summer. If rainfall is long during ripening, then the fruit may not be so sweet.