Preparing the garden for cucumbers
In order for the cultivation of cucumbers to bring a good harvest, you need to adhere to some care recommendations. In the article, we will consider the basic planting rules and talk about which cucumber garden is best for you and consider interesting ideas in creating rows.
Preparing the garden for cucumbers
Landing rules
During planting, it is necessary to prepare the cucumber beds. There are rules that every gardener must follow:
- The cucumber bed should be located away from strong bodies of water.
- The planting of cucumber culture is carried out in an area where there are no drafts.
- Be sure to water and feed the cucumber beds. This will help prevent crusting and dry out the soil.
- Fertilizers are applied to open ground more often than to closed ground.
- Cucumbers are harvested with care, because there is a possibility of damaging the wattle fence of the plant.
- Cucumber beds are weeded frequently. It is advisable to cover the landing site with a dark film.
Cucumber culture has a positive attitude to feeding, therefore, fertilizers in the form of humus, manure, small branches, dry grass and food residues must be placed in any rows. These substances make the earth fruitful and distribute a lot of heat during decomposition. To get a large harvest, it is necessary to prepare the soil on the site.
The substrate from the plants must be glowing to strongly heat the soil. So that the roots of the cucumbers do not suffer from strong heating, the ground is well watered after planting the cucumbers.
Types of vegetable rows
In order to get a rich harvest with excellent taste in summer and autumn, you need to know how to properly prepare the beds for cucumbers.
There are several types of cucumber beds that are ideal for cultivating cucumbers to grow healthy, tasty, and most importantly, a large harvest.
Planting is carried out in the spring and harvest right before the fall. The technology is different for everyone, so it is recommended to know about each separately.
Warm
Cucumber beds are made in 2 methods: in a trench and on the surface. To build them yourself, you need the following components and tools:
- 2 shovels, bayonet and shovel, as well as a pitchfork;
- young manure and slightly rotted;
- dry leaves, grass;
- medium-sized branches, sawdust, roots and firewood;
- food waste, such as cleaning from vegetables, bread and liquids;
- building boards, nails and a hammer.
To make trench rows for cucumbers, deep holes are dug in the fall. The length should be 3 m and the width should be 1.5. At the bottom of the trench, wood material is placed in the form of branches and firewood. Then they build a shelter using planks. This will help maintain the shape of the rows. Then they put a layer of grass, manure, leaves and food waste. The top layer will be earth, 15 cm deep. This will help keep the soil warm throughout the season.
The cucumber row is covered with foil and left untouched until spring. Over the course of the winter, overheating will occur in the rows. This will prepare the land for planting vegetables in April or early May.A warm row is suitable for planting 5-7 years. Such terms will satisfy every gardener, because the trench will allow you to grow a good and large harvest of vegetables.
You can make the garden yourself
On the surface of the earth, making a bed for cucumbers with your own hands is even easier. To do this, all the components that need to be added to the soil are mixed and compacted. Pour 20 cm of earth on top and get a small mound. It is on this hill that vegetable seedlings are planted in spring or seeds are sown.
Vertical
Vertical planting of vegetables will help save time for the gardener in the country. Vegetables will grow in high quality and healthy, and pests and diseases will be bypassed. For tall rows, you need to take plastic containers or manure. You can use buckets or barrels, fill them with all the necessary substrate, and also use the construction of high and round slides from manure, no more than 1 m in diameter.
The lower level is made in the form of drainage from branches. Manure mixed with the ground is placed on top, and then another layer of earth is laid out, 15-20 cm wide.A peg, 1-1.5 m in size, is placed in the center. A string is attached to the base in the number of bushes, and its end is attached to the end of the row at using hooks. When the vegetables begin to grow, they will cling to the strings, and the vegetable garden will look like a green and beautiful pyramid.
Mobile
This type of row is suitable for unfortunate areas with poor soil. The main advantage of this open-field cucumber garden is low labor costs. You don't have to dig up the ground to build a special plant for planting vegetables. The planting device can be placed in any convenient place.
For the base, branches or bushes are used, which are laid out in rows of 10-15 cm. Manure is poured on them, leaves and dry tops are placed. Further, everything superimposed is sprinkled with earth by 5-10 cm. The plot is abundantly watered with a manure mixture and covered with a dark film. Holes must be made in the film into which seedlings or seeds will be planted. If the planting will take place at an early time, the site is covered with several films so that frost does not kill the plants.
Other types of rows
The vegetable grows well right in the soil. You just need to dig it up and apply the right fertilizers. There is a drawback in this cultivation method - it is a late harvest and the risks of crop loss due to parasites and diseases. Cucumbers also grow well in wood and brick barrels. The positive aspects of such cultivation methods are the absence of parasites that can kill the culture, as well as a stable air temperature.
Culture care
Caring for a plant in rows is practically no different from caring for greenhouse plants:
- watering as needed and fertilizing;
- loosening the land and cleaning the site from weeds;
- soil mulching;
- garter of plants.
The row needs to be watered every day, as it dries much faster. If the substrate begins to dry out, the decomposition process will stop at the bottom layer of the earth. You can water in any way, both from a watering can and using hoses. It is important that drops during watering do not fall on the foliage of the plant.
Simultaneously with watering, you need to apply fertilizers in the form of organic matter or ash once every 7-12 days. If the gardener has applied warm rows for cultivation, it is often not necessary to make additional fertilizing. In bad weather, the plant can be fed foliarly by spraying with a urea mixture. During the growth period, 2 such dressings will be enough.
Conclusion
Using unusual cucumber rows has a positive effect on the quantity and quality of the crop. Most gardeners use just such growing methods and advise them to beginners.