Characteristics of Adam cucumbers
The Adam cucumber variety will appeal to everyone.
Characteristics of Adam cucumbers
Description of the variety
According to the description, tomato Adam f1 is the most unpretentious and highly productive variety. This is an early ripening vegetable with a female flowering type. Usually the fruits of the Adam variety reach a length of 10 cm.
The variety is suitable for growing both on the balcony and in open beds.
A distinctive feature of the variety is cold resistance, unpretentious cultivation, rapid growth and a long fruiting period. Gherkin retains its presentation for a long time.
The elastic consistency of the fruits, the plant's resistance to diseases, the retention of qualities after processing also distinguish Adam f1 in a number of varieties. It tastes slightly sweet, delicate, and has a pronounced aroma.
Landing rules
For cucumbers Adam f1 to bring a bountiful harvest, it must be properly planted.
- Prepare a garden for planting cucumbers. The correct one will be the one where the fruits of turnip or pepper have already grown.
- Mark the garden bed before digging. The length of the bed can be any, width - no more than 1.0 m.
- The depth of the digging should be the bayonet of the shovel.
- Adam greets warmly, so after digging up the beds, they cover her with foil. After 10 days, when the bed is heated, you can safely plant it.
- Use individual pots so that the cucumber seeds are not in the same box.
- Next, holes are made, where the seedlings are poured from the seedling pot along with the ground.
- The hole is covered with soil and filled with water.
- A groove is made in the prepared fossa with a depth of approximately 3 cm.
If the sowing of cucumbers falls on the second half, it is recommended to plant the vegetable with dried seeds in the grooves. The seeds are laid out at a distance of 30 cm and covered with a layer of soil. If planting is carried out in the second half of May or early summer, the seeds should be soaked in water for 7-8 hours. Also, before planting the seeds, the groove is well saturated with water, after planting it is covered with soil.
It is recommended not to disturb the garden until the seedlings appear.
Bush care
Variety Adam must be watered in the evening. Water temperature 15-18 ° C. It is better to weed, of course, with loosening of the soil.
On day 21, when the first shoots appear, the plant requires feeding in the form of mineral and organic fertilizers. The plant is fed at intervals of a week.
- Mineral dressing: 25 g of settled urea, 50 g of superphosphate and 15 g of potassium are added to 30 liters of warm water.
- Organic feeding: add 3 kg of mullein to 30 liters of warm liquid. The mass is thoroughly stirred until complete dissolution, left to infuse for 3 hours, after which it is stirred again and the bushes are watered, as with ordinary irrigation.
Pest control
Infusions will help get rid of insects
An integral part of the work is pest control and plant protection from disease. The most common pests are aphids and spider mites.
Aphid
Aphids manifest themselves in August. Some plant infusions help to cope with it.
Ash solution
First of all, the plant is treated with tobacco or wood ash infusion with laundry soap.
Requires 3 glasses of ash and half a bar of soap for 15 liters of liquid. The soap is finely planed and dissolved in water, then ash is poured into the soap solution and stirred well. The solution is used to irrigate bushes.
Pepper solution
An infusion of red pepper with soap and ash, which needs to be treated with bushes, is also well suited.
For 10 liters of liquid, 2-3 medium pods of red hot pepper are required. The vegetable is finely chopped, added to the water, which is boiled and allowed to cool. The solution is irrigated with stems and leaves.
Mite
Most often vegetables in greenhouses or under polyethylene suffer from ticks.
Soap solution
Spraying with soapy water can be used to combat the mite.
To prepare the solution, you will need half a bar of soap for 15 liters of liquid. The soap is finely sliced and dissolved in water. The solution is used to irrigate bushes.
Prophylaxis
The following simple growing rules will help protect the category F1 Adam cucumbers from diseases:
- precise temperature control (from 18 ° C);
- watering with exceptionally warm water (15-18 ° C);
- fertilization with special means (organic matter: mullein, urea; artificial mineral preparations for plants: "Agricola");
- getting rid of weeds.
Conclusion
Thus, Adam cucumbers have pronounced advantages and practically do not show any disadvantages.