How to plant cucumbers as seedlings? Easily!

Every gardener considers it his duty to get a huge harvest of the most popular crop - cucumbers - in the hot summer. After a period of summer preparations, it’s so nice to open a jar of pickles in winter! But before that, you need to figure out how to plant cucumbers as seedlings.

Cucumber planting technology

• Select seeds in accordance with regional climatic conditions and the purposes of growing cucumbers/
• Using a 5% solution of table salt, discard the seeds. After being in the solution for several minutes, low-quality seeds will appear on the surface. It is also advisable to disinfect the seeds using a solution of potassium permanganate.
• Keep the seeds in a moist environment for 2-3 days. They are ready for planting when they germinate and reach a size of 2-3 millimeters.
• Place each plant in a separate peat pot and keep it at a temperature above 25 degrees until germination. To prevent the sprouts from stretching upward, they need to be illuminated, especially on cloudy days.

If you follow all the recommendations, you will receive a rich harvest. And before you plant cucumbers as seedlings, do not forget that this should be done no more than three weeks before the intended planting in the ground, otherwise the seedlings will stretch out greatly and lose their quality. Have a good harvest!