Cucumbers on the balcony: how to easily harvest a generous crop with pimples

How good is a fresh cucumber: fragrant, crispy, rough. Grown with your own hands - great! If you do not have a piece of land, but have a balcony, then you can still experience the feeling of cucumber happiness. Crunch and chop the vitamin salad. How to do everything right - read in my article to the end

The first thing I want to say to potential apartment growers is simple. Even a beginner who imagines the basics of agronomic skills from afar will get his harvest.

Cucumber is an extremely unpretentious and predictable culture. Growing it on the balcony in a confined space, it is enough to know how to reduce the discomfort of a bush due to an unusual place of detention to zero. Actually, my article is devoted to these nuances.

Decide in advance which varieties to sow

Choosing the right variety is the first step to a bumpy crop. What you should pay attention to when buying a bag of seeds "for growing on the balcony":

• Suitable or not for your region? The golden rule for outdoor cultivation. I repeat that the cucumber is a plant without whims. But! To get the most out of your crop, use proven varieties.
• The length of the lashes is important for owners of balconies of a modest area.. Moreover, if the bushes will share the appendix of the apartment with other plants - for example, how not to hang a couple of boxes with flowers?
• Self-pollinated or not? You need to be prepared for the fact that the bees will not rush to fly to the balcony of the 9th floor. Yes, and in that year, some kind of trouble happened to the working insects. So it is better to play it safe and take self-pollinated varieties / hybrids of cucumbers. And for the owners of closed loggias, this factor will be the most important. Why is not worth explaining.
• How the shadow transfersif the balcony cannot boast of bright lighting.

I would advise you to take early varieties from myself. The calculation is simple: I want to see the fruits of my labor as soon as possible. For example, "Khrustyk" is suitable, which is also tolerant of low light - note to owners of shady balconies.

And now the most important thing is the basics of growing

Great, the seeds have already been purchased and are waiting for their finest hour. I will not write about watering-feeding-picking. Simply because the general care of balcony cucumbers is exactly the same as for garden cucumbers. I will write the most important nuances point by point.

Suitable capacity

Let your cucumbers have enough nutrient-rich soil. Let the bush develop quickly and please with dozens of greenbacks! When choosing what to plant balcony cucumbers in, give preference to containers of about 10 liters - this will be the "best".

The allowed minimum is 5 liters. For example, a friend of mine is planting seedlings in a cut-off water bottle. It grows, by the way, on the veranda - yes, everyone has their own ideas about decorativeness.

Support

To please the owner with a green harvest is not the only vocation of a cucumber. He is supposed to trail and weave branches in all directions. Sunlight will warm the plant to the very middle, and the playful breeze in the crown will not leave a chance for rot and other garden infections.

Think about where your cucumber bush will stretch. Take control of the situation to make it beautiful too! For example, stretched ropes or thin rods will come to the rescue.

About cold

Your cucumber will grow on the balcony, where covering the bush with a film is quite problematic. It is enough to throw the film on the arcs in the garden. At first, protect the young with a cap from a cut plastic bottle. And in bad weather, cover from cold gusts of wind with a film on one side.

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