Podgoskovny cucumber: planting and care

Do you represent your table without a crisp pimply vegetable, whose name is a cucumber? If not, then it is worth learning a few lessons on how to grow it. Landing area - Moscow region: this area is focused on this article. Do you want a strong cucumber to grow in the open ground , planting and caring for which will require a minimum of effort? Then be patient. This vegetable starts to "be capricious" from the moment of soaking seeds, so it will have to be cherished as a small child.

You can buy seeds in a specialized store, you can in the market, just to not be wrong with the variety. Unfortunately, 100% germination is not guaranteed by any firm, so it's better to buy a pair of bags for future use. It's okay if 80% of the seeds pass through: some of them will die during disembarkation from uninvited guests (daws, for example) or frost. The bear can still visit the beds or the mole: this sweet couple leaves a void in the ground, in which the roots of young shoots just die.

How to grow a strong cucumber ? There are many answers to this question, but it is worthwhile to listen to the opinion of the summer residents, who have been making special vegetable beds for years. For the open ground of the Moscow suburbs, only a warm "pillow" is suitable, and it should be prepared in autumn. The remaining tops and mown grass are not destroyed, but are placed in compost pits, which can be dug directly in the garden. It is even better to prepare trenches and in them to lay everything that can perennit for the winter.

For trenches, select the site, and their length should be commensurate with respect to the beds for the vegetables that you plan to grow for the next year. Cucumber, planting and care for which will be carried out by all members of the family, will be grateful for having been taken care of in advance, and will yield a good harvest. As soon as the trenches are ready and there are demolished unnecessary "tops and roots", pour water, cover everything with plastic wrap, put the sheets of roofing material on top, sprinkle the structure with earth and start making seamings.

In the middle of May open the trenches, sprinkle abundantly with humus ash, mix it with cow manure, add a little phosphorus fertilizer (1 matchbox for 5 meters), cover with a layer of ground in 15-20 cm. The bed where the cucumber will grow, planting and caring for Which will not begin until May 27, is ready. You can start sowing.

Sowing cucumbers in the open ground is best done on a warm day, abundantly pouring warm water from the barrel already prepared beds. Seeds by May 27 should proklyutsya and show you the root. If it is not, then it is unlikely that something will grow out of the seed. Get rid of the "marriage" and begin planting the rootlet down. To do this, make a little finger in the ground holes at a distance of 20 cm from each other. In one hole you can plant 2 seeds: future plants know how to "make friends", so do not worry about that one will muffle the other.

Here is a cucumber, planting and caring for which requires special technology. As soon as the first leaves appear from the ground, drive pegs next to the plant and pull the ropes vertically. On them crawl "strands", firmly clinging to the mustache for free space. If you regularly loosen beds and water cucumbers only with warm water, you will get a harvest that will not fit in a couple of bags.