Cucumbers – one of the most widespread vegetable cultures along with potatoes and tomatoes. In the conditions of midland this thermophilic and hygrophilous plant is grown up in hotbeds or with use of ukryvny material at fall of temperature. Terms and ways of crops of cucumbers differ depending on cultivation method.
It is required to you
- - potassium permanganate;
- - drainage;
- - cespitose earth;
- - sand;
- - humus;
- - manure;
- - wood ashes;
- - ukryvny material.
Instruction
1. The soil for cucumbers is prepared since fall. Choose the site of the friable subacidic soil protected from strong winds. Cucumbers take out easy shadowing, but in dense shadow it is better not to place cucumber beds. At autumn redigging of the soil bring bucket of manure and two hundred grams of wood ashes on square meter of soil.
2. Cucumbers grow up as seedling way, and from the seeds seeded to the open ground. It is worth being engaged in preparation of planting stock at seedling way of cultivation at the beginning of April. Wet cucumber seeds for fifteen minutes in potassium permanganate solution.
3. Wash out the processed seeds and wrap them in damp fabric for prorashchivaniye. It is the best of all to use for this purpose easily becoming wet material with dense interlacing of threads. After cucumbers sprout, their roots will be hard to be taken undamaged of fabric like gauze. Place seeds in the place with temperature not lower than twenty degrees and you watch that fabric remained damp.
4. Prepare container for seedling. On bottom of capacity fill layer of drainage about a centimeter thick. Over drainage layer fill the soil mixed from four parts of humus, part of sand and two parts of the cespitose earth. Seed the sprouted seeds in soil mix on depth of two centimeters, cover film or transparent and place box so that air temperature in it did not fall lower than twenty five degrees.
5. In week after shoots appear, temperature in small greenery with seedling can be reduced to twenty degrees. Water seedling is more warmish than room temperature. In order that seedling was not extended, dosvechivayta by its fluorescent lamp.
6. Cucumber seedling is recommended to plant for bed after there passes the danger of spring frosts. One week prior to this plant it is necessary to prepare for change: to reduce indoor temperature with seedling to fifteen degrees and to reduce watering.
7. In the bed prepared since fall dig out groove of thirty centimeters in depth. On its bottom put layer of humus about fifteen centimeters thick and fill up it with top layer of soil. For cucumbers it is recommended to form slightly raised bed.
8. Some vegetable growers prefer to sow cucumbers in the bezrassadny way. For this purpose seeds turn in damp fabric for twelve hours then sow in the paved way on depth of three centimeters. Between separate plants about ten centimeters leave distance. Do it after the earth gets warm to fifteen degrees.
9. For normal growth the cucumbers need air temperature about twenty five degrees. At emergence of threat of frosts cover bed with film.