When it is necessary to sow cucumbers for the harvest to grow by mid-May.

With the onset of winter, few people think about seeds and their planting. But in vain, because in order to pamper yourself with an early harvest, you need to think over and prepare everything in advance.
Most people know exactly why it is worth growing homemade cucumbers. As you know, purchased vegetables are industrial varieties, they are stored longer, but their taste is much different from home cucumbers. Often they do not even have the smell inherent in these vegetables, and their skin is tough and rough. If you want to start eating your cucumbers as early as possible, then in winter it is worth preparing for sowing seeds.
This article will focus on the recommendations and timing of planting cucumber seeds, the harvest of which you will receive in May.
In the 20th of March, it is worth starting to soak the seeds. This will allow transplanting seedlings to the greenhouse at the end of April. For sowing, floor-liter plastic jars of sour cream are ideal. Also, in the future, it is easiest to transplant seedlings from such a container without harming it.

Many novice gardeners believe that cucumbers are very capricious. This is due to the fact that sometimes the seedlings refuse to bloom. Sowing the seeds of this culture has its own secrets, and one of them is the use not of fresh seedlings, but of those that are several years old, and sometimes more than 3. It is these seeds that will not produce barren flowers. Proper storage of seeds prior to planting is also an important factor. Keep them in the refrigerator at a low temperature.
Landing pits should be given special attention. Place compost, a pinch of compound fertilizer and ash in each well. Mulching the soil with grass is also required.
If you adhere to such simple rules, then in mid-May, when all gardeners have cucumbers just beginning to break through the ground, you will be reaping a rich harvest. In addition, your cucumbers will be fresh, crispy and flavorful, which is not the case with purchased vegetables.

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