Characteristics of Serpentin cucumbers
Is there anything more delicious than a crunchy green cucumber grown with love with your own hands? Hardly ... These vegetables are tasty, healthy and low in calories. They are good both for fresh consumption and for canning, moreover, they are irreplaceable in cooking. And the variety of varieties of these vegetables is simply confusing. Which one to stop at? What to choose? Meet the Serpentine cucumber variety!
Characteristics of Serpentin cucumbers
Description of the variety
Cucumbers Serpentin are distinguished by high productivity and the fact that they ripen early enough. Their use is varied, because gherkins look great both in the jar and on the table.
Bushes
The bushes of this variety of cucumbers are powerful, medium-sized, medium weaving, the type of flowering they have is female. From the time they were planted before the time of harvest, 42-45 days have elapsed.
Fruit
Cucumber fruits Serpentine for the most part has an oblong cylinder shape, its length can be up to 12 cm. The excellent presentation of this vegetable and its taste will delight every gardener. The flesh of these vegetables is crispy and not bitter. The fruit is fragrant, with a thin skin, can weigh an average of 95 grams.
Yield
A decent crop can be harvested from one square meter - about 20 kg. And under the best growing conditions, even up to 25 kg. The first of them "give birth" together, and since Serpentine bears fruit for a long time, there is an opportunity to feast on the fruits all summer.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
In order to decide on the choice of a cucumber variety, you need to analyze all the advantages and weaknesses of this variety. Advantages of Serpentine f1:
- growing soil can be both open and closed;
- Serpentine harvest is quite high;
- excellent presentation;
- tasty and juicy gherkins;
- stored for a long time and well transported;
- versatile in use;
- are not capricious and are moderately ill.
The only negative that contains a description of the Serpentine cucumber variety is that young fruits must be thoroughly washed before eating (preferably with a brush) to remove the thorns.
Planting varieties
If you decide to plant cucumbers in early May, it is better to do it in grooves 3 cm deep and you do not need to wet the seeds first. Spread them out at a distance of 30 cm and cover them with soil. If sowing takes place in late May or early June, then the seeds must be wetted in advance (by 7-8 hours), and the groove must be well watered before planting the seeds. Until sprouts appear, the garden should be left alone.
Soil preparation
The plant does not tolerate low temperatures
The characteristic and description of the variety says that Serpentine f1 does not like low temperatures. Accordingly, in order for the bushes to germinate well, the soil temperature must be approximately 17-18 ° C. The site is prepared in advance in the fall: it is dug up and the remains of plants are removed.
Sowing
The best choice for this will be places where tomatoes, cabbage, peppers or various types of salad were previously planted.
Before digging, pay attention to the fact that the length of the bed can be anything, but let the width be no more than one meter. It would be nice to raise the bed by 20 sms. Better yet, dig it up and cover it with foil for two weeks so that the earth warms up properly. After that, you can plant seedlings.
Boarding time
The time for planting Serpentine cucumber seeds for seedlings is the end of the first decade of April.
To do this, you need to take separate containers (not a common box). Shoots should appear in five to six days. Plants are usually planted in May, when the weather is favorable for this. Seedlings are transplanted into holes at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Then cover the hole with soil and water abundantly.
Care
Cucumbers of the Serpentin f1 variety with its excellent yield are not difficult to grow, but subject to simple rules.
Watering
Cucumbers of the Serpentin variety require moderate watering until the time they bloom (consumption 4 liters per square meter). You need to water once every five days. After they bloom and begin to "give birth", the irrigation regime needs to be changed - once every three days (at the rate of 10 liters per square meter).
Fertilizer
Do you want Serpentine cucumbers to give a good harvest? Then in the summer it is necessary to carry out 4-5 dressings with different types of fertilizers (mineral and organic), which are better to alternate.
Cucumber Serpentine requires regular feeding:
- Compost solution. It should be applied once every seven days. It is easy to calculate - a bucket of fertilizing per square meter.
- A mixture of ash and water will also fertilize gherkins well. Bushes are poured with it once a week and prepared as follows: a glass of ash is stirred in a bucket of water (for every two meters of the garden).
- If, after ripening, the cucumber leaves are hardened, spray them with urea dissolved in water (1 tablespoon per ten liters).
Pest control
Many problems arise for gardeners as a result of the actions of various insect pests. The battle with the cucumber "enemies" is a must, if, of course, the gardener is interested in the end result. Most often, the cucumber attacks aphids, spider mites and rootworm nematodes.
Aphid
In order for the aphid to go away, you can spray the leaves with tobacco infusion or tincture of wood ash with laundry soap. Onion (70-90 grams per 10 liters of warm water) and garlic (40-60 grams per 10 liters of warm water) infusion will also help remove aphids from cucumbers. Already after 24 hours it can be used for watering.
Spider mite
You can destroy it by spraying it with a special solution sold in the store. Soap solution can also help solve this problem.
Gall nematode
To escape from this parasite, you need to remove a layer of diseased soil (50 cm) and replace it. In greenhouses and hotbeds, steam cultivation is used. Freezing the soil is also recommended.
Conclusion
If the necessary rules for caring for cucumbers are not followed, you may be disappointed - the Serpentine cucumber may simply "get sick" and the yield will drop. But in case of proper care, the grateful plant will bear fruit for a long time and delight with a generous harvest. The rather long period of the plant's life, as well as its unpretentiousness, makes this cucumber variety a good choice for those who are very busy.