What leaves of Zucchini I cut off without a shadow of a doubt, profitably winning in the harvest. It's a pity that not everyone knows about the benefits of the procedure.
Do you want to harvest a decent crop of zucchini? Then a fiery salute, comrades gardeners-zucchini growers!
Get out of your cozy gazebos and verandas, decorated with already festively dressed petunias and ampel begonias. Today on the agenda is a useful one, but, to my great repentance, it has not found wide application. at the six hundredth dachas of citizens, a procedure for the healing of a squash bush, directly affecting yield. Skillful liquidationsome leaves with the firm hand of a grower!
Why deprive zucchini of leaves and when the procedure can harm
The breakage of squash leaves is designed to solve 2 important tasks:
1. Reduce the risk of diseases caused by excessive bush density. You don't need to be an agronomist to understand that only a healthy plant gives a good harvest.
And the zucchini, without false modesty referring to the giants of the beds, often sins with this. As a result, air does not enter the core of the plant, and the lower leaves get wet on the ground. Not tearing off some of the leaves is like hanging up a banner "Come, dear pests, fungi and bacteria!"
2. Improve yield in quantity and quality. Opening the middle of the bush and slightly damaging it means that it is far-sighted to make all the flowers more accessible to pollinating insects. And the future zucchini themselves, ripening in the sun, turn out to be tastier and juicier than from poor brethren languishing in the shade.
But you shouldn't mindlessly tear off all the leaves. No amount of food can be compared to the nutrition that a plant receives through photosynthesis.
What leaves from a vegetable marrow to pick
Discarding the lyrics, I will list the points:
- Without a doubt, everyone dried and rotten leaves. Pay special attention to the petioles - their defeat is also an indication for removal. Such a leaf will no longer be healthy, but it may turn into a lot of things: sooner or later, fungi and bacteria will begin their vigorous activity, "processing" the organic residue. No one will give a guarantee that after him the gluttonous microorganism will not decide to transfer forces to healthy leaves or, even worse, flowers and ovaries (God forgive me!).
- Lower leaves spread freely on the ground. They are constantly in contact with moist soil, becoming a breeding ground for microorganisms. And it is also an excellent shield for slugs, snails and other guests of the garden who came without an invitation and also love to spoil both the plant and the crop.
- Leaves interfering with each other. Comrades! If one leaf overlaps another, then one can be removed and 2-3 leaves covering the center of the bush. Let nothing prevent the bees from flying to the flowers, the sun from pouring the fruits, and the breeze from blowing the middle, expelling the fungi from there. and bacteria that love moisture and stagnant air, but cannot stand the creation of caring citizens' hands ventilation.
The zucchini will remain trimmed and happy! Comrade, pressThumbs up if the article was helpful. Sincerely yours, master of marrow business Fyodor Tyapkin-Sklyankin!