Fertilize cucumber in the cold and rain, so that they are actively growing, and gave the harvest. Other important activities
As a result of the cold and rainy July, many gardeners complain about the absence of a crop of cucumbers. But if you do everything right, then a bucket from the garden can be harvested every 2 days, despite the unfavorable weather.
What you need to provide
Cucumbers should be covered with foil under the arc or agrovoloknom, it will create at least a small greenhouse in cloudy weather, which will contribute to better growth and development of the fetus.
At night, cucumbers need to cover completely, and in the afternoon slightly open at one or both ends to cucumbers ventilated and there was no appreciable decay of leaves and fruits.
A special role (and you can tell important) play dressing for a great harvest.
Using yeast feeding
The yeast mixture suitable as feeding for cucumber. On one bed of 10 m2 enough buckets 3 solution. Flow rate - 100 grams of pressed yeast per 5 liters of warm water. The mixture should stand for 6 hours. Then it must be diluted with water in a ratio of 5 to 1.
Yeast - an active growth stimulator, therefore cucumbers are actively fruit. Yeast (microscopic fungi) are not fertilizer, but are assistants rapid degradation of organics (in poor soil will have no effect) compete with pathogenic microflora.
They also help to strengthen the immune system, resistance to cold and heat cucumbers. But keen on yeast experts do not recommend, because they are acidifying the soil.In addition, yeast are removed from the soil calcium and potassium.
Application ash solution
Also well sol solution promotes active fruiting. Consumption - 1 cup of water in the bucket. It is recommended to infuse the mixture for one day and then watered at the roots of the plant.
leaves truncation
To avoid thickening green mass, it is recommended to thin planting by truncation leaves (mainly the lower tier). This will improve productivity, because the main power go to fruition, will improve provetrivaemost, sunlight and accessibility for pollinators (for pcheloopyljaemogo varieties of cucumbers).
You also need to remove yellowed leaves and leaves with symptoms of the disease (often ill cucumber downy mildew or downy mildew is a fungal infection).
The above activities will improve fruit set, increase yields during the cold and rainy summer.
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