How often to water cucumbers after landing in soil

How often to water cucumbers after landing in soil

To receive good harvest of cucumbers, it is necessary to grow up them correctly. The most terrible for this culture the lack of watering is considered.

Cucumbers very much love heat and long cold nights for them are pernicious - their growth slows down, and fructification decreases. However, watering is important for this culture much more, not only the quantity of harvest, but also taste of fruit depends on it. Badly watered cucumbers grow bitter with thick crust.

Watering of cucumbers has even number of rules. It is very important that the humidity was optimum. Water ingress on seedling leaves when watering is considered extremely adverse. In this case they can turn yellow or ache with mealy dew of which it is very difficult to get rid subsequently. Therefore if watering comes from hose, then it should be stacked in bed, but not to pour water from above.

During vegetation, before emergence of flowers, it is necessary to water not much. There is enough 5-7 liters on 1 square meter. It is necessary to make such watering 1 time in 5 days if the soil strongly dries up, then is more often (1 time in 3 days). When there are first flowers, watering needs to be speeded up. During this period it is necessary to make it every other day, and it is better every day.

It is necessary to water with warm water that it was not lower than 24 degrees, it is better in the evening. Water can be poured since evening in big capacity, for example, in barrel. In day it will get warm up to the necessary temperature, and then your cucumbers will receive that optimum water which is necessary to them. It is the for this purpose best of all to use watering can as watering from hose can wash away already small backs which are very badly restored.

It is very good to make watering of cucumbers by means of plastic bottle. For this purpose at each bush the two-liter bottle by neck is driven down (previously on neck the cover with holes is wound), the top is cut off. The water which is warmed up in capacity is poured into bottle and everything is ready. Gradually it will undergo to plant roots carefully their watering. At such way the roots will not be washed away, and on earth surface the crust will not be formed.

By the end of summer the watering needs to be reduced as at night the earth will strongly cool down, and moisture to remain. Its surplus can lead to zagniyeniye of roots subsequently. Having executed correctly watering now, you receive excellent harvest then.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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