Cucumbers: growing outdoors

Who does not like cucumbers, so crunchy, fragrant, tasty? It seems that there is no person in Russia who is indifferent to this green pimply vegetable in fresh, salted or marinated form.

Smart and enterprising people also adore cucumbers,the cultivation of which can bring very good money. The yield of this vegetable in open soil, with high agrotechnics, can yield up to 70 tons per hectare, and in greenhouse conditions, from one square meter, you can collect 46 kg of cucumbers.

What exactly is a cucumber? This is a large amount of water, about 94-97% and quite a bit of sugar (1.5-2%), protein (1%) and fiber (0.75%). Also contains a certain amount of aromatics, pectonizing enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Particularly can boast a cucumber containing iodine, it is in this vegetable more than in any other, including potatoes.

There are different ways to grow cucumbers: on open soil, in greenhouses, on a windowsill in a city apartment - everywhere this gift of nature, with the right agricultural techniques, will yield high yields of produce.

When grown on open soil, cucumbers shouldplanted in well-lit and sheltered areas of the earth, preferably on southern or south-western slopes. The best predecessors for them are peas, early cabbage, beans, tomatoes, onions, early potatoes. If there is no possibility to change the landing site every year, they can be grown in the same place for 4-6 years in a row, and it is necessary to burn leaves and plant residues in the fall, the ash of which is the best fertilizer for cucumbers. Still carry out a deep digging and very carefully destroy the weeds in the immediate vicinity of the place of growth of cucumbers. Around the area with cucumbers, it is better to plant high-growth plants that will protect the cucumbers from wind.

Traditional agricultural techniques for cucumber cultivationsuggests that the soil under them should be loose, fluffy, moist and free from weed plants. It is very beneficial for the crop to be introduced into the soil of peat bog compost, manure or decomposed urban debris.

Seeds are recommended for hardening before planting. This procedure is carried out as follows: the seeds are soaked in water at room temperature for 7 hours, then the water merges, the seeds are wrapped in a wet napkin and placed in the refrigerator for 17 hours, then brought into the room for 7 hours and then again in the refrigerator for 17 hours. The procedure of hardening is recommended to spend 6-7 days, all the time wetting a napkin and only after that the seeds are planted in the ground.

Very popular in recent years has becomeseed coating is when they are first moistened with dilute glue and then covered with a layer of a mixture of peat dust with humus, mineral fertilizers, growth stimulants and insecticidal fungicides. This procedure contributes to the fact that shoots are provided with the necessary nutrition and, at the same time, already at the initial stage, are protected from pests and diseases. When the drained seed is sown, the shoots are uncontracted and uniform, the similarity increases by 20-40%, the growth of young roots and growths is enhanced, and such seeds are not stitched by birds.

The main task in the agricultural technology of this vegetable,no matter what methods of growing cucumbers are not used, it is getting friendly shoots. Therefore, the seeds should be laid in a moist, well-warmed, loose soil and close to a depth of about 3-4 cm.

Seeds of cucumbers can be sown on ridges and on levelsquare in a nested way. In this case, the plot is marked in two directions, every 70 cm, in the corners of the formed squares, do holes 10-12 cm in size and spread in them a scatter of 12-15 pieces of seeds.

It should be remembered that cucumbers, the cultivation of whichalthough the matter is painstaking, but fascinating and grateful, absolutely can not tolerate blackouts, so timely weeding and thinning of sprouts is very important. Thinning should be done in the 3-4-leaf phase.

Among all vegetables, the most demanding of waterand air cucumbers, their cultivation should be carried out at a soil moisture content of 65-75%, since excess moisture is harmful to them. The most frequently shown plants are refreshing frequent watering in small portions, especially during fruiting.

Harvest of fruits should be collected every two or three days, tearing down absolutely everything: both hooks, and missed overgrown.

Plant cucumbers, growing them can not bringonly a good harvest, but also moral satisfaction, and pickled and elongated cucumber from the garden in the winter from the garden, will be proud of yourself and forget about all the difficulties and worries associated with its cultivation.