What can growing and caring for cucumbers involve?

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What are the cultivation and care of cucumbers? It's quite easy if you remember each step. One missed step means more work to be done. There are many varieties. Many gardeners love phoenix.

How to grow cucumbers

Care begins even before landing. After all, cucumbers need nutritious soil. Even after harvesting, the land must be treated with vitriol - 1 cup. per liter of water, copper sulfate. It turns out for 1 sq. km. 1 kg. fertilizers Then comes the cultivation of the bed. You need to dig it up to a depth equal to the shovel part. Already in the spring, manure should be added to the soil. The bed needs to be dug up again. Next you need to add a solution of sodium humate. This is done using beds that must be dug and watered first with warm potassium permanganate in water.

Next comes sowing. It goes like this:

  • Dry seeds are sown at a distance of 10-15 cm along prepared grooves and covered with a layer of earth;
  • The soil must be compacted with your hands - lightly;
  • Seeds do not need watering if the furrows are watered before sowing;
  • The top of the bed should be covered with a covering material; cellophane, frames with glass, etc. will do;
  • The seeds will germinate for about a month, at this time watering is carried out, the water should be warm;
  • When there are 10 days left before transplanting, the seedlings are fertilized with sodium humate, after loosening the soil.

This is how we get seedlings. Then they dig it up in clods and plant it.It is believed that this should be done either in the evening or in cloudy weather. This is how cucumbers are grown and cared for.