How to increase the yield of cucumber

The most important of all crops for us is the cucumber. Crispy coated entertaining pimples, and an equally good pickling and fresh. If a person has a garden, almost certainly in this garden have cucumber beds. Based on user experience Forumhouse, we'll show you what to do to obtain a high yield of cucumber in the open field and in greenhouses.

warm bed

According to the experience of our portal users, the main condition for obtaining early and abundant harvest cucumbers - a warm bed. Prepare it in April: dug earth is transheyka depth of 20-30 cm in the center of the entire length, which is dug "Insulation": last year's leaves and grass, small twigs, pruning raspberries, hay, etc. On top of all this is covered with soil, watered water. To warm up the flower bed at the time of disembarkation of cucumber over her arch stretched film.

Cucumbers and landing

In mid-April (but not before!) For seedlings sown the seeds of the earliest and, importantly, self-pollinating varieties of cucumbers. Seedlings are planted in prepared bed into the middle of May, but instead of the film is tightened covering materials arc (density 30 or 42). Cucumbers are planted so that the plants were not crowded, the distance between the bushes - about 20 centimeters. In addition to the wells of a bed is charged with warm decomposed manure. When cucumbers begin to bloom, the earth under them mulch, such as straw. But opinion is divided on this question - of the farmers said that the mulch does not need, because the earth is a bed of cucumber should be well warmed up.

Depending on the climate of the region, the film is removed at the end of May - beginning of June.

Caharok (User FORUMHOUSE):

Cucumbers are always a lot. But the bed is always - warm.

Cucumbers come in early June. Usually they are not conserved: eaten fresh or salted doing. Twist in banks cucumbersWho sow seeds directly into the well in May.

Many put cucumbers on the completed compost heap, the result pleased.

Ayrat (User FORUMHOUSE):

As my late grandmother: "For cucumbers need manure and watering!" And she knew a lot about the cucumbers, the best in the village "ogurechnitsa" was.

Cucumbers in a bottle

Many gardeners grow cucumbers, covering their five-liter bottles of water. Bottle served well (2-3 seeds per well) immediately after planting, and remove it when the cucumber vines inside becomes cramped. Thereafter, cucumbers grown in dist. This method helps to speed up the receipt of the vintage.

top-dressing

Cucumbers - responsive vegetables. On good care meet a good harvest, and vice versa. If the cucumbers are not enough nutrients get tasteless, skosobochennye, curved hook off. How do you know what it is not enough cucumbers? You just need to consider carefully the plant.

• Not enough nitrogen: Leaves abnormally bright, some delicate salad, fruits also become the bad color. The more the lack of nitrogen, the worse feeling cucumbers, leaves turn yellow, the plant stops growing, the roots turn brown and die.
• Not enough phosphorus. Phosphorus also learn about the lack of color, but in this case the leaves, on the contrary, become unnaturally dark and small. However, the leaves may darken and the fact that the soil is not enough moisture.
• I do not have enough potassium. On the leaves collapse occurs bronze rim, which quickly becomes dry. And the fruits of cucumber are expanding at the tops, like zucchini.
• Not enough magnesium. Inspect the lower leaves. Stains, first light green, which in a few days become yellowish, say that cucumbers are in need of magnesium fertilizer, which will accelerate and increase the harvest!
• Not enough calcium. This is usually in acidic soils. Liming will help, but it must be carried out carefully, not even under the cucumbers, and under the previous culture.
• Not enough boron. If you've seen the cucumber leaves that bent spoon and break easily, then the plant is in dire need with boron serving.

In principle, some special feeding of cucumbers for their users of our portal is not satisfied, but appearance of the first fruits of every one to two weeks, give them a nitrogen-rich "skunk", and sometimes - the infusion of chicken litter. "Skunk" - an infusion of freshly cut grass - doing so, one of the herbs pour ten parts water, insist in a warm place, such as a greenhouse. Upon completion of the fermentation process is diluted with water.

But if you forget about ashes or soluble potash, on the background of enhanced nitrogen nutrition cucumbers can experience the potassium deficiency. This problem can be solved by pouring cucumbers with a solution of wood ash.

Watering

Cucumbers like watering, but do not like when they have roots in the swamp champs. Therefore, it is better to water in accordance with the weather, "if wet - then fine." And it's better to not be lazy and once again pour than watered infrequently and in large quantities. Another point, which rarely pay attention - Cucumbers do not tolerate cold water. They must be watered in the hot sun with water, in the cold days, you can add boiling water. Cold water - one of the causes of beaked cucumbers.

Garter

Tie cucumbers or not? Experience shows that the correct tie. The "tie" whip better in the clockwise direction.

Freighter (User FORUMHOUSE):

It is necessary to twist in a clockwise direction in the course of the sun, top follows the sun, and if you spin the mind of the whip and with vigorous growth casts a snap.

If you have time and energy, antennae better pick - they, too, are turning the sun, and at this time clutching for everything that turned up, for example, list - and then there are all sorts of unwanted burns and podprevaniya. Without antennae bush abode, and energy on unnecessary movements he uses less.

Forming

Cucumber bush is formed depending on the kind, the cultivation method (or at a trellis distance) from where it is grown: in the greenhouse or the exhaust gas.

Here we see a plant formed in one main stem. All side removed, and where there was a stepson, grows a new cucumber. This type of formation is good for greenhouses (when the whip dorastut to ceiling will be easy to omit them). Another plus: the plant does not waste energy on the formation of the lateral lashes.

afynf (User FORUMHOUSE):

In cucumber in axils of each leaf grows a tiny cucumber and stepson, this one stepson when he did a little removed. In its place grows a new cucumber or several cucumbers, and so form the entire vine.

In cucumber in axils of each leaf grows a tiny cucumber and stepson, this one stepson when he did a little removed. In its place grows a new cucumber or several cucumbers, and so form the entire vine.

But so can only form a cucumber with a female type of flowering: from pcholoopylyaemyh varieties and hybrids main branch pinch after the sixth sheet, because the main crop is formed on the side whip. Another: the plant formed a single whip, especially in need of timely watering and feeding. Without it, it can not cope with so many of the ovaries, and the "extra" will turn yellow and drop onto the ground.

Pollination

We have already talked about the popular ways to attract pollinators and melons that both by working bees in case of need. There you have two options to lure insects into the greenhouse. viktor50 It attracts bumblebees as follows: plucked flourishing Welsh or chives and from the beds to the greenhouse every three meters installed with sticks attached to it peduncles. Its one beam it blooming onions hung inside the greenhouse, near the open door. After two days in the greenhouse, stand straight, concurring buzzing insects.

Iriska11 every spring sowing in the greenhouse early-maturing varieties of dill and cilantro, and a few carrot roots. They begin to bloom at the same time with cucumbers. Insects love spices and carrots, and cucumbers and pollinate the path.

Fight with cucumber tick

You always want to grow cucumbers without the use of chemicals, so glad to tell you about a security tool: the destruction of the tick with soap and vegetable oil.

Stirred 0.5 liter of water, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, one injection liquid soap, and this solution is sprayed cucumber vines. It is important to treat the lower surface of the leaf because the tick, basically, it dwells on it. Principle: suffocates the tick in oil solution, and eggs also die. If necessary, the treatment may be repeated.

On FORUMHOUSE you can discuss any issues concerning cucumbers,watch video, dedicated selection cucumber and radish, Read the article on how to grow cucumbers in a greenhouse with tomatoes.

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