The excellent harvest of cucumbers can be received not only in the greenhouse, plants quite well grow and fructify even in the open ground. For this purpose it is necessary to consider several simple rules at cultivation of culture.
Preparation of cucumber bed
To grow up excellent harvest of cucumbers in the open ground, it is necessary in advance, since fall to take care of the place for their landing. Choose the solar place protected from winds. The best predecessors for this culture are bean (haricot, peas or beans), tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage.
Prepare bed. Dig up the earth, carefully choosing roots of weeds. Add sawdust, peat, compost, humus and manure to the soil. Leave in such look till spring.
When snow descends, cover bed with black film. It will help to get warm much quicker to the soil. Besides will sprout weeds which can be removed easily before disembarkation to the open ground of cucumbers.
Preparation of planting stock
To receive early harvest, it is necessary to grow up seedling. Wet plant seeds within 2-3 days. After they to arise, plant them in the peat pots filled with soil on the basis of compost or in peat tablets which need to be wetted previously. Cucumbers very badly transfer change, and seedling which is grown up in these tanks can be planted in soil directly in glasses. Care for seedling of cucumbers consists in timely watering and scarification. After emergence of 2-3 present sheets they can be landed to the open ground. When landing cucumbers to the open ground seeds sort qualitative from "empty". For this purpose carry out the simplest test. In glass with water of room temperature fill planting stock. Full seeds will fall by bottom, and bad will emerge. Collect them from water surface and you will throw out, and the seeds which have fallen by bottom, dry and put in linen sack. In 2-3 days prior to landing process planting stock in potassium permanganate solution to disinfect them from possible diseases. Take them 2-3 hours in pink solution, then carefully wash out under flowing water and put on saucer with damp cotton fabric for prorashchivaniye.
Features of landing and care for cucumbers in the open ground
When positive daytime temperature is established (approximately after May 10), plant cucumbers. Dig over bed and make in it holes at distance of 50 cm from each other. It is abundant them water and let's water be absorbed to the soil. In each hole put 2-3 sunflower seeds or on one sapling. Once again water landings with warm water. In May and at the beginning of June there is possibility of frosts, besides night time temperatures still low therefore it is the best of all to protect landings of cucumbers in the open ground. Put arches and pull film. This design will save cucumbers from adverse weather. Before emergence of the first short moustaches thin out shoots. Cut off excess bushes of cucumbers at the roots. Loosen surface of bed and weed. At emergence of the first short moustaches it is necessary to tie up cucumber lashes. At the edges of bed establish pegs, attach crossbeam to them. To it stretch thin ropes which tie to small pegs and thrust to the earth near each bush. That fructification of cucumbers in the open ground was more abundant, it is necessary to carry out the procedure of "dazzle". Pinch off the first floret of each bush. The subsequent ovaries will be much more powerful and abundant. Care for cucumbers in the open ground is abundant daily watering in dry weather. As at this culture the big green material, is required to them large amount of water. At emergence of the first ovaries carry out the first fertilizing by dung water, you introduce fertilizer about 3 times during the season every 3 week. Very effective action renders extra root fertilizing on development of plant and its fructification by biohumus. It needs to be parted according to the instruction and to spray cucumbers in cool cloudy weather.