What to put in the hole, when to plant cucumbers: what the soil should be like

What does charging a hole with fertilizers do?

Cucumbers are considered a plant with a short growing season. In order for them to have time to form a powerful vine with strong foliage and a large number of female flowers and fruits in the short summer, they need fertile soil saturated with a full set of macro- and microelements.

Well and properly fertilized soil also speeds up the process of seedling adaptation in a new place; it does not linger and quickly continues its development.

Finally, warm weather encourages rapid root growth. The supply of nutrients promptly provides borage with everything necessary for the formation of beautiful, tasty cucumbers.

Recipes for feeding cucumber seedlings

Starting fertilizing of cucumber seedlings should be done when it has its first true leaf. Earlier fertilizing will not give the expected effect due to the weakness of the root system. The only exceptions are those cases when, due to a lack of nutrition in the soil, the leaves and stems of seedlings begin to turn yellow and wither.

1. Start feeding at the first leaf stage. Fertilizer application is combined with watering and carried out in the morning so that all the leaves have time to dry before evening.
2. The second feeding procedure is carried out approximately 15 days later, when the second true leaf appears.
3. It is advisable to carry out the third feeding 2-3 days before planting the seedlings in the garden bed.

By the time the second and subsequent feedings are carried out, the seedlings have already become quite strong and their need for nutrients increases greatly. Therefore, the amount of mineral components in these supplements increases significantly.

There are many different feeding recipes for seedlings. We have listed above only those that are used most often.

Valery, the author of the channel “Garden, vegetable garden with your own hands,” tells how to feed cucumber seedlings after germination.

In the greenhouse

If cucumber seedlings are grown in a greenhouse, then the time interval between the first two feedings should be 2 weeks.

In the same volume of water for the second and subsequent applications, increase the amount of mineral components of the solution by 100%.

For seedlings grown on poor soils, especially if they are not developing well, it is useful to feed them with mullein or a mixture of ash and chicken droppings. Bearing in mind that a solution with such organic components can burn the young leaves of seedlings, fertilizing is carried out very carefully and only at the root.

After landing in the ground

Immediately after planting cucumber seedlings in a permanent place, it is advisable to refrain from fertilizing. Transplanted plants experience stress and may not be able to withstand the additional load. It takes about 2 weeks to take root and adapt. After this time, if the seedlings have five true leaves, you can start fertilizing, having previously moistened the soil with water.

For feeding, you can use organic compounds - an infusion of mullein or bird droppings. Subsequently, fertilizing is carried out at intervals of 2 weeks.

Fertilizing can be done with a mixture of the following components:

• 10 liters of water;
• 20 g of potassium nitrate;
• 30 g ammonium nitrate;
• 40 g superphosphate.

In rainy weather, it is recommended to practice dry fertilizing, distributing wood ash on the cucumber bed at the rate of 150 g per m2.

What minerals are added before planting?

The main concern for increasing soil fertility for planting cucumbers comes in the fall: mineral and organic fertilizers need time to be completely absorbed into the soil.

For a good start, cucumbers are placed in the holes:

• Granular superphosphate, characterized by slow movement through the ground. Its close “neighborhood” with the roots of the seedlings will completely cover the need for the element. A tablespoon of simple or a teaspoon of double superphosphate is enough for one well.
• Urea, which will provide plants with the amount of nitrogen necessary for growth.
• Potassium is the main element responsible for the quality of fruits. Potassium nitrate is added to the wells, which simultaneously produces nitrogen, potassium sulfate or molybdate.

Often, instead of putting fertilizers in the holes, summer residents prefer to add them in liquid form by preparing a solution:

• potassium sulfate – 15 g;
• ammonium nitrate – 10 g;
• simple superphosphate – 10 g;
• water – 10 l.

Half a liter of solution is poured into each well.

The use of complex fertilizers simplifies the work, for example:

• Diammofoska is added at the rate of 15 k/m 2;
• ammophoska – 30 g/m2.

At home

Fertilizing cucumbers at home is practically no different from greenhouse fertilization. Seedlings grown at home on a windowsill are fertilized in a similar way, but according to a slightly different scheme:

• the first time - 2 weeks after emergence with a mixture of 15 g of kalimag, 5 g of ammonium nitrate, 5 g of magnesium sulfate and 3 g of superphosphate, diluted in 10 liters of water;
• after 10 days - 1 liter of mullein, 20 g of superphosphate, 15 g of potassium sulfate for every 10 liters;
• every 10 days - with a light pink solution of potassium permanganate.

When choosing what to feed cucumbers at home, you should pay more attention to organic matter, in particular, manure and bird droppings, which contain nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. To prepare them, they are diluted in half with water, left for a week, and then diluted - the first in a ratio of 1:10, the second - 1:20.

Mullein is an indispensable fertilizer for cucumbers

Homemade fertilizers

This group of fertilizers is especially popular among summer residents. The raw materials are always at hand and are completely safe to use.

The leader in popularity and versatility - it is not only an excellent fertilizer for all crops, but also a good means of preventing diseases and repels a number of insect pests. Place a handful of peelings into the cucumber holes, pre-soaked for a couple of hours in lukewarm water.

The waste remaining from fish processing is an unappetizing product, but it perfectly provides the planted seedlings with phosphorus, calcium and potassium. An additional bonus of fish offal is that when decomposed, it warms the soil and produces carbon dioxide, which is also important for cucumber vines.

Finely chopped fresh grass or steamed with boiling water is mixed with a small amount of soil and placed at the bottom of the hole. This cushion improves the soil structure, feeds the seedlings with nitrogen, and warms the bed. One hole takes about a glass of greens.

Wood ash is a source of valuable minerals and at the same time disinfects the soil. When planting cucumber seedlings, 2 tablespoons of the substance mixed with soil or sand are placed in the hole.

Moistening homemade fertilizers with Fitosporin solution before placing them in planting holes provides additional protection against fungal infections.

Rich in potassium, starch, and vitamins, they also protect the beds from wireworms. Like onion skins, they are collected during the winter and dried. To plant seedlings, they are crushed and brewed with boiling water. Place a glass of cooled “puree” into each well.

What else can you put in the hole?

On various forums and social networks, summer residents share their secrets of preparing planting holes for cucumber seedlings:

Add ammophoska (1 tsp) or bone meal (1 tbsp), crushed eggshells (1 tbsp) into the hole.

They dig a hole 60-70 cm deep, into which they first lay out a bucket of rotten leaves collected in the fall. Then add a layer of soil, add 5 liters of humus mixed with a tablespoon of complex mineral fertilizer. The leaves will perfectly warm the bed with cucumbers and provide the carbon dioxide necessary for fruit ripening.

In order to insure borage against root rot and other fungal infections throughout the summer, when planting cucumbers, add gliocladin (3 tablets per bush).

Cucumbers react equally poorly to a lack and excess of nutrients in the soil. If you have doubts about how much fertilizer to put in a hole, follow the rule - you can add, but you cannot subtract. Correct filling of the planting hole guarantees healthy plants and a good harvest of tasty cucumbers.

How to feed cucumbers after germination

The first feeding of seedlings should be carried out no later than 10-14 days after emergence (when two true leaves form). It is best to use EM preparations for this - Baikal EM1, Ekomik Urozhainy, Siyanie (according to the instructions). For example, you can spray the seedlings with Baikal EM1 (5 ml per 5 liters of water) at intervals of 1-2 weeks.

Effective microorganisms contained in EM preparations will accelerate the decomposition of organic matter in the soil, and plants will be able to obtain the necessary nutrients in an easily accessible form.

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In addition, cucumbers can be fed with complex fertilizer for seedlings, for example, Malyshok, Rodnichok or Krepysh (according to the instructions).

During the season, cucumbers need to be fed at least four times: two weeks after planting the seedlings in the ground, during the budding period, during the flowering period and during the fruiting period.

Why do this?

In a short period of growing season, cucumbers need to achieve the formation of a powerful leaf apparatus and a large number of vegetables. This crop develops more actively when grown on fertile soil. With soddy-podzolic soil, it is recommended to plant cucumbers only in the third year, after organic fertilizer has been generously applied to the soil.

Planting cucumbers in fresh manure that has just been added to the soil is also not recommended, since strong vegetation will damage the germination of fruits. However, you can sprinkle five to ten kilograms of fresh manure per square meter when digging up the soil in the autumn. The carbon dioxide released during the decomposition of fresh manure has a positive effect on soil fertility.

Due to the fact that this vegetable crop does not like oversaturation with minerals, fertilizers must be handled extremely carefully. As a rule, the first feeding is carried out in the fall. This allows you to prepare the soil, saturating it with the main complex of useful and nutrients. The main feeding is carried out when planting plants in open ground. This is necessary so that the seedlings quickly adapt to the new land. Therefore, fertilizing the holes is an important step in growing such a capricious crop as cucumbers.

It is also worth noting the usefulness of root fertilizer for cucumbers. If your region experiences warm weather in the summer, the root system of cucumber bushes will develop quickly and intensively. And fertilizing applied to the hole when planting seedlings will contribute to the formation of juicy and ripe cucumbers of the correct shape.

Features of feeding cucumbers in a greenhouse

It is not recommended to use fertilizers when planting plants in a greenhouse. Under cover, it is necessary to most accurately observe the dosage of substances. As a rule, less food is needed in greenhouses than in open ground.

How to understand what cucumbers are missing?

Cucumber bushes can suffer from either a lack of nutrition or an excess.

If the fruits taste bitter, turn yellow, rot, the bush grows poorly, and the ovaries fall off, this may be due to a lack of calcium. It is recommended to use recipes with the addition of eggshells or 0.2% calcium nitrate.

A sign of nitrogen starvation is the pale color of leaves and fruits. They may become pointed at the end. Plants can be helped with mullein.

Potassium deficiency is manifested by the curved shape of cucumbers (they take on the appearance of a hook). As a treatment, you can use recipes using wood ash.

If there is a lack of phosphorus, the leaves of the bushes may turn yellow. It is worth feeding them with a superphosphate solution.

What fertilizers should I apply?

Adding fertilizer to the soil before planting cucumbers is a must. This is the only way to grow healthy and nutritious vegetables. This process must be approached carefully, preparing the soil for further planting of seedlings in advance. Gardeners and summer residents disagree about which method of soil preparation is most effective. In this case, it is necessary to focus on your own experience and periodically experiment, noting positive results.

Most experienced gardeners agree that it is advisable to fertilize the soil in the autumn.

Mineral fertilizers, which are used to saturate the soil with useful microelements, give a positive effect only if there is plenty of moisture and after several months.

For intensive growth and development, cucumbers need regular nutrition with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. It is worth noting that the latter is not contained in organic fertilizers, for example, in manure or droppings. Therefore, vegetable crops need the following fertilizers:

• saltpeter;
• sulfur fertilizer;
• chloride fertilizing;
• molybdate fertilizing.

In addition to potassium, onion peels are popular fertilizers for cucumbers. Both elements are introduced directly into the hole immediately before planting. Each of the listed fertilizers has certain application features. Let's look at them in more detail.

Onion peel

Before the cucumber seedlings are in the garden, it is recommended to prepare the holes. One successful solution is to use onion peels. As a rule, they store it from the beginning of winter, first drying it and putting it in a box. After this, reserves of onion peels are laid out in each hole intended for cucumber bushes, adding a small amount of humus. The resulting mass is stirred. Only after this procedure can you start planting cucumber seedlings. In this case, the plants need to be planted together with the soil that was in the cups with the seedlings.

The popularity of onion peels is largely due to its reusable use. In addition to directly adding to the garden bed, you can make an excellent decoction from the husks. The resulting liquid replaces water when watering the plant. After receiving the decoction, the onion peels are not thrown away, but dried and, as necessary, added to the wells of the cucumbers. Onion fertilizer is often called a fertility biostimulator. It is also a good antiseptic that helps in the fight against harmful bacteria and microorganisms.

Many gardeners note that the husks can be used as compost, as they repel certain types of insects that can cause the plant to die. By placing the peel next to the vegetable crop, you thereby create protection from pests that cannot tolerate the specific smell of onions.

If you decide to use onion peels without compost, it is recommended to pre-soak them for two hours. Only after this can you “fill” the beds with it.

Onion peels contain a whole range of nutrients useful for vegetable crops (vitamin C, E, PP, B, A). You can also note the presence of a large amount of phytoncide, which gives onions bactericidal properties, quercetin, which is a strong antioxidant, and beneficial organic acids (potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese and iron). If you notice any insects feasting on the leaves of a cucumber bush, it is likely that spraying a warm infusion of onion skins will help get rid of the pest.

What fertilizers do I feed cucumbers in open ground?

Cucumbers in open beds are less protected than in greenhouses, so I always pay extra attention to their fertilization. Agronomists confirm that the best fertilizers for this feeding are bird droppings and minerals. Such nutrition together heals the plant and increases the period of fruiting. Mullein is no less popular among gardeners and summer residents - due to its ease of use and richness in various nutrients.

Organic fertilizers

To fertilize cucumbers with natural fertilizers, I use chicken manure and cow manure. I highlight for ease of use and mega-useful properties for cucumbers:

1. I mix litter, manure with water, maintaining a ratio of 1:10.
2. The solution can be infused a little.
3. I water the cucumbers at the roots with the resulting mixture in the evening hours.

horse and chicken manure in granules as fertilizer

Mineral supplements

For those gardeners and gardeners who do not want to waste time preparing nutrient solutions, I recommend ready-made complex mineral supplements. There is no need to be fancy with their use - detailed instructions for use are on the packaging. Basically, you just need to dilute it in the right ratio with water. The resulting mass is used for both root watering and foliar spraying. In the latter option, reduce the concentration of mineral fertilizer by 2-3 times.

mineral fertilizers for feeding the garden

When choosing a mineral complex for cucumbers, pay attention to a couple of points:

1. The selected product must contain nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium elements.
2. Among the most popular and effective are traditional superphosphate, potassium sulfate and urea.

Complex

In addition to purchased mineral complexes, prepare “hybrid” fertilizers yourself, mixing organic and inorganic components. Among the most popular recipes:

• potassium sulfate + manure;
• superphosphate + chicken manure.

This approach allows you to effectively feed plantings, spending a minimum of time on it. Complex fertilizers for cucumbers will be enough twice a month.

Adviсe

Today, there are a large number of recommendations for growing nightshade crops. Let's consider the most useful ones that have positive results in practice.

• The optimal conditions for planting cucumbers in open ground are air temperatures from twenty-five to thirty degrees above zero. Relative humidity indicators should be at least seventy to eighty percent. If these indicators are ignored, seedlings planted in open ground may not take root and will soon die.
• Don't forget that nightshade vegetables, including cucumbers, love warmth. Consequently, watering is carried out exclusively with water heated in the sun. By the way, when preparing fertilizer, the recipe of which requires the addition of water, it is also advisable to use warm water. Watering plants in open ground is carried out in the evening, when grown in a greenhouse - exclusively in the early morning. If there is insufficient moisture, the fruits will acquire a bitter taste.
• Cucumbers have a negative attitude towards chlorine, which is often one of the ingredients in potash fertilizers. In order not to injure the plant with an element that is unpleasant for it, it is advisable to use products such as potassium salt and potassium magnesium when preparing mineral fertilizer. Their composition, as a rule, contains a minimal amount of chlorine, which is not capable of harming the plant.

• Cucumber seedlings are extremely sensitive to any changes in the external environment. One of them is transplanting into open ground or a greenhouse. Experienced gardeners recommend using peat pots designed for growing seedlings. When planting a vegetable crop, the seedlings are placed in the soil along with the pot and lightly sprinkled with earth. This helps preserve the root system and avoids the possibility of any injury.
• Before planting, the hole is not only fed with the above-mentioned fertilizers in the form of onion peels or potassium, but also watered abundantly to moisten the soil. In order to provide the vegetable crop with the necessary supply of calcium, it is also recommended to place ground eggshells in the hole. After this, the hole is lightly sprinkled with earth. Then mineral fertilizers are applied and cucumber seedlings are planted. Surface covering of the soil with mulch will reduce the number of germinating weeds and improve the quality of the soil. Fresh mown grass, hay or straw are used as mulch.

How to make warm beds for cucumbers

What’s good about using a warm bed is that you can get greens 20 days earlier than from a regular bed, and if you try especially hard, you can harvest it faster than your neighbor can harvest it from his greenhouse.

With warm beds it’s not so simple; they can be made deep or high.

How to make warm beds for cucumbers for an early harvest

Recessed warm beds

A deep warm bed will be at one or slightly higher than the general ground level.

What's good about a sunken garden bed?

• The soil in such a bed does not dry out for a long time and does not require frequent watering.
• If frequent watering is a problem for you, then this is your best choice.

How to make a warm bed quickly with your own hands

Do-it-yourself warm bed

First, you need to dig a trench on the site about 1 m deep and about 1.5 m wide. When digging the trench, put the entire layer of soil aside. Place a couple of shovels of expanded clay at the base of the trench for drainage and level it well along the bottom of the trench.

1. Lay massive branches, roots, logs, stems and other wood waste with long periods of rotting in the first layer 40-45 cm thick. In particular, such a layer is necessary on clay soils, where rotting is slow, or in areas with a close primer - this will help reduce the negative effect of the presence of excess moisture.
2. In a second layer of 45-55 cm we place other organic matter, this can be compost or humus, peeling vegetables or parts of food, vegetable tops, fallen leaves.

Put on rubber boots with thick soles and try to compact each layer thoroughly and water it with water at room temperature (you can add a biological product).

• Cover with plastic wrap and leave for a week.
• After a week, it is advisable to compact the bed well again and, if you notice any depressions, then cover it thoroughly with a layer of garden soil, being sure to mix it with compost in equal proportions.
• After this, cover the bed again with film for a week and then use it for its intended purpose.

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High warm beds

For a high bed, you need to build a box - the soil in the box will warm up faster. The principle of operation here is the same, only all layers are laid in a box.

• Raised beds can last for several seasons, but it is better to grow cucumbers there for only a couple of years, then replacing them with other vegetables.
• It has been noticed that in high beds, cucumber plants are less susceptible to pests and get sick less often.

What to put in the hole for a generous cucumber harvest

Every experienced gardener knows how whimsical and capricious the cucumber is on the plot. Only with comprehensive care and compliance with the rules when planting and growing can you achieve a generous harvest of this crop. The key to a rich harvest is the application of fertilizers to the hole before planting cucumbers. It is necessary to take a responsible approach to preparing the beds where cucumbers are supposed to be planted.

Each gardener, taking into account climatic conditions, the soil on the site and personal experience, chooses which fertilizer to give preference to when preparing the land. Many summer residents are inclined to believe that they need to start preparing the land for cucumbers in late autumn, after finishing the harvest. As a rule, mineral fertilizers are chosen for this; over the course of several months, with plenty of moisture, they can saturate the soil with useful substances.

How to feed cucumber seedlings

During vegetable growing practice, many different feeding recipes for cucumbers have been developed and introduced. They are made up of organic and mineral fertilizers, as well as folk remedies.

Moreover, organic matter, mineral fertilizers and folk remedies can be used individually or in various combinations.

Folk remedies

As fertilizers, gardeners use not only organic and mineral fertilizers, but also folk remedies - various herbal infusions, egg shells, wood ash, baking soda, iodine and much more.

Yeast

Ordinary baker's yeast contains many beneficial microorganisms that are endowed with the ability to decompose organic compounds into simpler substances available for plant nutrition.

Practice has shown that adding yeast to cucumber seedlings perfectly stimulates the rooting of seedlings and promotes their growth and development. It is better to fertilize with yeast twice:

• after transplanting plants into open ground, about a week after nitrogen fertilizing;
• a week after the second feeding with phosphorus-potassium compounds.

To use, yeast is diluted in warm water and the resulting solution is poured over cucumber seedlings under the root.

Detailed information about feeding cucumbers with yeast at all stages of their development.

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Iodine

An aqueous solution of iodine is used in the following cases:

• for prevention against infections;
• use as fertilizer;
• dressing seeds for their rapid germination.

The use of iodine for feeding cucumbers is allowed at all phases of development. Over many years of practice using iodine, many different recipes have been developed for feeding cucumbers.

Wood ash

Rich in potassium and phosphorus. Recipe:

• 3 liters of hot water;
• 1 glass of ash.

The composition is infused for 24 hours.

For more information on feeding cucumber seedlings with ash, watch the video:

Herbal infusion

Mineral fertilizers

Most often, cucumber seedlings are fertilized with mineral fertilizers. There is a simple explanation for this:

• it is convenient to work with mineral fertilizers;
• they contain many nutrients;
• In complex mineral fertilizers, nutrients are balanced for specific plants.

Urea

Unlike ammonium nitrate, urea can be used for both root feeding and foliar application.

When the first true leaf appears, urea can be applied under the root as an aqueous solution.

• 10 liters of water;
• 30 g urea;

Water the seedlings at the root, at the rate of 100-200 ml of solution for each plant.

In addition, foliar feeding is carried out on cucumbers with urea. For this purpose, the solution is prepared according to the following recipe:

• 10 liters of water;
• 5 tbsp. spoons of urea;

The prepared solution is applied to the leaves of cucumbers. Treatment should be carried out in the evening, when solar insolation subsides.

Ammonium nitrate

Ammonium nitrate is a fairly cheap and popular fertilizer containing up to 34% nitrogen in ammonium and nitrate forms.

As a rule, it is not used for foliar feeding. The ammonia form of nitrogen can leave a burn on the leaves of cucumbers.

Application can be done in the spring, when preparing cucumber beds. The application rate is 30 g per square meter.

In the process of growing cucumbers, they can be watered at the root with ammonium nitrate dissolved in water. The solution is prepared according to the following scheme:

• 10 liters of water;
• 30 to 40 g of ammonium nitrate.

Stir the composition until the granules are completely dissolved.

Depending on the age of the plant, from 200 to 400 ml of the prepared solution is poured under each root.

Preparing the soil before sowing

Fertilizing the land before sowing can be divided into two approaches: in the warm autumn, after completing the harvest, and directly in the spring, before planting.

1. Autumn preparation includes spraying with a solution of copper sulfate at the rate of 1 tbsp. l. for a full bucket of water. The consumption of such a mixture when treating beds by spraying is 1 liter per 1 sq. m of land. In winter, the beds must be thoroughly dug up, going deep with a spade, after fertilizing the soil with a mixture of fertilizers. For such a mixture, you need to mix 200 g of harvested wood ash and 1 tbsp. l. Superphosphate per 1 sq. m.
2. With the arrival of spring, about 2 weeks before sowing, for each meter of beds you need to add 3 kg of well-rotted manure and dig up the soil. Immediately before sowing the seeds, it is recommended to prepare a mixture for watering from 2 g of potassium permanganate and a bucket of warm water. Pour this mixture into strips deepened by 2-3 cm, which should be at a distance of 18-22 cm from each other. Half an hour after this procedure, you need to generously pour the grooves with a hot mixture of 10 liters of water and 1 tbsp. l. sodium humate.

Greenhouse activities

Greenhouse plants require more nutritional supplements than those grown outdoors. The reason is the lack of useful elements that could get with rainwater, as well as the lack of pollination in a closed space. When choosing fertilizers for cucumbers at home, it is important not to get carried away, since an overdose is harmful to greenhouse plants. Often, to feed cucumbers, summer residents use only organic matter in greenhouses - bird droppings and mullein, and also add yeast, dairy products and herbal infusions.

Cucumber seedlings are grown from seeds. The process includes a number of activities:

• long warm-up;
• hydration;
• complex fertilizer;
• cooling and placing seeds in pots.

For about a month, the seeds for seedlings are kept in a warm room where the temperature is maintained at 25°C. This way it is possible to speed up future fruiting, ensure uniform shoots and reduce the amount of barren flowers. Before germination, the grains are placed for an hour in a solution of 30 g of garlic pulp and 100 ml of water to disinfect. Next, they are placed on a piece of fabric soaked in a nutrient solution (for 1 tablespoon of water, take 1 teaspoon of ash and nitrophoska). When the grains swell in a humid environment and slightly hatch, they are placed in the refrigerator for a day to harden.

A mixture of rotted sawdust, humus and peat is poured into each pot in a ratio of 1:2:2. This mixture is fertilized with 2 tbsp. ash and 1.5 tbsp. nitrophoska. Place 1 seed in a pot with a nutrient mixture. Do not forget to water the seedlings at least once a week. Be sure to provide lighting.

The seedlings are transplanted into the greenhouse when 4–5 leaves appear on the stems. This moment occurs approximately 3 weeks after planting the seeds. Before transplanting, each sprout is fertilized (3 tsp of nitrophoska or nitroammophoska per 3 liters of water). The shoots are planted in warm soil, previously watered with a pale pink solution of potassium permanganate and sprinkled with 1 tsp. phosphate fertilizer. The interval between two adjacent seedlings is 35 cm.

Fertilizers when sowing cucumbers

If the soil is properly prepared before sowing, then when planting cucumber seeds in the ground, additional watering will not be required. You need to lower the seeds into the furrows every 10-15 cm, covering them with a 1-2 cm mound. After the furrows are sprinkled with soil, you can lightly pat the beds with your palm, compacting the surface.

It is necessary to cover the grooves with cucumber seeds with thick cellophane folded in two layers, securing it with boards or slats around the perimeter. As a covering material, you can use window frames or 1.5-liter plastic bottles divided in half for each seed. The sprouts should remain covered for a month, until it is time to transplant to the main bed for adult cucumbers. During this time, the growing cucumber sprouts must be shed several times with warm water.

2 weeks before the seedlings move to the main place, it is necessary to feed the younger generation of cucumbers with an effective composition of 1 tbsp. l. sodium humate diluted in a bucket of water. The consumption of such fertilizing will be 3 liters per 1 sq. m. Before fertilizing the soil in this way, it is recommended to loosen the soil between the rows, and after fertilizing, cover the bed again with double polyethylene. For this procedure, you need to choose a warm, windless day.

Organic fertilizers for cucumber growth

Organic is the best option when growing cucumbers. It is better absorbed by plants and makes it possible to grow healthy products. The most common recipes are mixtures of mullein and bird droppings.

To prepare the solution, rotted droppings are diluted in a ratio of 1:10, fresh droppings - 1:20. At the end of the season it is added during digging. Water at the root.

Cow dung is also used in fresh, rotted, or semi-rotted form. Fresh manure can only be used in the fall when digging. For watering, you can prepare a mixture of 1 liter of mullein and 2 liters of water. The resulting mass is kept for 1 week. Then, for application under the bushes, dilute 500 ml with 1 bucket of water.

In the video, the author explains in detail how greenhouse cucumbers can be fed with fertilizer from chicken manure.

Fertilizers after sowing cucumbers

Before planting a young cucumber in a permanent place, the main beds should be prepared. The soil must be thoroughly dug up using a spade. For sowing, you need to prepare holes 35-45 cm from each other, into which you put a kilogram of rotted manure and sprinkle about 10 cm on top of the soil. Only after this, it is good to water the holes with warm water and start transplanting young cucumbers, waiting for a cool evening.

Already in a permanent garden bed, you need to water the cucumbers abundantly at least 2 times every 7 days in the evening. Adult cucumbers also need high-quality fertilizer throughout the summer. You can prepare fertilizer for feeding cucumber crops in this simple way: pour 100 liters of water into a large container, gradually adding a glass of urea and a full bucket of cow manure. Mix all this and wait for it to be ready. After just 4 days the composition will be ready for use. The consumption of this composition is 5 liters per 1 sq.m.

Knowing when and what to put in a hole with cucumbers, you can achieve a bountiful harvest.

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Signs of a lack of substances

Cucumbers quickly react to a deficiency of certain micro- or macroelements, which immediately affects their development and appearance. Symptoms and methods to resolve the problem will be as follows:

If the signs cannot be used to determine what fertilizers are needed for cucumbers in a greenhouse or in open ground at the moment, then complex preparations are used. First, the damaged plants are treated, the result is observed, and if the trend is positive, fertilizer is applied to the entire bed.

It should be borne in mind that cucumbers are harmed not only by a lack, but also by an excess of nutrients. The introduction of large quantities of chemicals is especially dangerous. If the dosage was exceeded by mistake, then the bed is watered abundantly, and the bushes that received the largest portion are transplanted to a clean bed. Correct and timely application of fertilizers necessary for cucumbers will help to avoid many problems, significantly increase productivity and improve the taste of the fruit.

How to fertilize cucumbers in a greenhouse

In greenhouse conditions, the soil is prepared in the fall. They dig it up and add manure, compost, lime and other fertilizers. To reduce the acidity level in the soil, dolomite flour is added to the soil in the fall.

According to gardeners, cucumbers growing in a greenhouse also require fertilizer. Let's figure out how to feed cucumbers for growth.

During the development and formation of fruits in greenhouses, it is advisable to use phosphorus and potassium fertilizers.

With a deficiency of nutrients, yellowing of cucumber foliage may occur, and flowering and fruit formation are delayed.

In this case, mineral fertilizers will help. They are added frequently, but in small dosages.

Cucumbers in greenhouses should be fed every 7 to 10 days. This makes it possible to control the growth of the plant at different stages of its development.

Nitrogen fertilizers

The process of growing a green vegetable is slightly different from other garden crops. This is because you will have to feed the cucumbers with nitrogen supplements twice during the growth and formation of the fruit. The initial feeding is carried out during the period of green growth, and repeated feeding is carried out at the time of active fruiting.

Nitrogen fertilizers contain mineral salts. A large concentration of the substance is found in chicken manure, as well as waste from cows or bulls.

With the help of this fertilizer it is easy to grow healthy vegetables. Nitrogen that is beneficial for cucumbers can also be contained in compost made from weeds. However, you need to wait until it ripens.

It should be noted that cucumbers do not accumulate salt, therefore they have low sensitivity to nitrogen fertilizers. When using a ready-made composition with nitrogen, the main thing is not to overdo it. Otherwise, the plant will die completely.

Planting methods

Fertile soil is laid on top of the manure and seedlings are planted
. Basic planting rules:

1. Place the manure in a high, long bed, the width of which should be one meter;
2. Place loose fertile soil on top of the manure in a layer of 25 cm;
3. Water thoroughly;
4. The soil is prepared for planting seeds;
5. Seed material is planted at the rate of four plants per 1 m2, two seeds in each planting hole.
6. After planting, the bed must be covered with film to provide additional heating.

REFERENCE: It is not necessary to carry out pre-planting preparation of seeds;

Due to the high temperature of the manure bed, the first shoots appear after 4-5 days. Young shoots need regular ventilation and a constant temperature range from +20 to +30 ºС.

Growing cucumber crops is not easy even for experienced gardeners, since this requires spending a lot of time and physical effort, regardless of the chosen variety of cucumbers. However, if all stages of cultivation are followed correctly, you can get a rich harvest of delicious cucumbers.

Excess fertilizer

When feeding cucumbers, you must be careful. You should never exceed the dose of fertilizer. If there are too many of them, the appearance of the plant will tell you about it.

The main signs of an excess of nitrogen in a plant

Excess nitrogen - the plant develops thick, irregularly shaped stems. The leaves take on a dark green color.

Excess potassium - mosaic spots or a light yellow border appear on the leaves, which over time becomes brown and then black.

A lot of potassium leads to the formation of a mosaic structure in the leaves.

If there is an excess of phosphorus, the plant turns yellow and the leaves fall off.

Along with chemical fertilizing, you can use rotted garbage, manure, straw, sawdust, peat and manure.

What kind of soil do cucumbers like?

Before planting cucumbers, choose an area with suitable soil or make the soil yourself . The soil should be light, nutritious, well-permeable to moisture and air, and free from silver inclusions in the form of salts.

Reference! The cucumber has a shallow root system, so when choosing and preparing the soil, you need to pay attention to the characteristics of its upper layers.

For this crop, soil with the following parameters is suitable::

• mechanical characteristics - light, loose, air and water permeable;
• acidity - neutral, within 4.5-7 pH;
• temperature - from 12°C to a depth of 20 cm;
• the humus content is high, especially in the upper layers of the earth;
• humidity - constant, moderate, without drying out and accumulation of water;
• microbiological activity is high.

The crop grows best on sandy and loamy soils . The ideal soil for cucumbers should include:

• sand - makes the soil light, acts as a drainage material;
• sawdust is an organic leavening agent (microorganisms responsible for the decomposition of wood actively absorb nitrogen from the soil during their activity, which is useful for such plants);
• peat - improves the moisture capacity of the soil and increases its nutritional value;
• turf - contains organic matter and humus;
• mullein - contains substances that give carbon dioxide to cucumbers, creates a greenhouse effect in the garden, protects the crop from sudden drops in temperature;
• humus is a source of nutrients presented in a form convenient for absorption.

The table shows which soils are suitable for growing cucumbers:

Temperature in summer

(at a depth of 20 cm)

What cucumbers don't like

Cucumbers do not yield in alkaline soils with high pH levels . They also do not like dry and heavy soil. In the table you can see unsuitable soils for planting cucumbers:

(at a depth of 20 cm)

Fertilizing the land before planting cucumbers

Bleach is used to disinfect the greenhouse. A solution is pre-prepared in the proportion of 300 g per bucket of water. It must sit for at least four hours. Processing is carried out with special care. The solution should get onto all wooden and metal structures. Glass should not be missed either. The cracks are coated with sediment.

In the autumn, the soil should be dug up. At the same time, rotted manure, compost and humus are added to it. Approximately one bucket per square meter is used. The necessary ingredients are dolomite flour or fluff lime. These ingredients are used in quantities of half a kilogram per square meter of soil.

At the end of spring digging, the soil is saturated with the following substances:

• ammonium nitrate – 30g;
• potassium sulfate – 20g;
• superphosphate – 30g.

After this, manganese is diluted in warm water. The resulting liquid is generously poured over the entire area. The solution is prepared at the rate of 10 g per bucket of water. The treated area is covered with a film, which will be removed directly during planting of cucumbers.

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