Prestige cucumbers: advantages and disadvantages of the variety, cultivation on the site

Cucumbers are a vegetable crop that can be found in almost every garden plot. Cucumbers are also grown on an industrial scale. This popularity is explained by the widespread use of cucumbers in human nutrition. This vegetable is good fresh, it can be preserved in various ways and used in cooking. It is worth noting that cucumbers can be grown both in open and closed ground; there are even balcony varieties.

Among them there are very early ripening ones, giving a harvest 40 days after germination, and there are also late ones, ripening in the fall, when it is time to prepare for the winter. Eat gherkins with graceful miniature fruits several cm long, and there are long-fruited giants up to 0.5 - 0.6 m long. Currently, many attractive hybrids have appeared for growing, for example, the prestige cucumber. Let's try to understand its advantages and disadvantages.

Content:

• Description of Prestige cucumbers, pros and cons
• Where and how to plant Prestige cucumbers
• Caring for Prestige cucumbers

Description of Prestige cucumbers, pros and cons

"Prestige" cucumbers are an F1 hybrid of medium early ripening. After germination, these cucumbers can be harvested within 45-52 days. Their fruits are of the gherkin type. Their length never exceeds 8 - 10 cm. Even if the harvest is not harvested on time, cucumbers are unlikely to outgrow the indicated dimensions.This is a very big plus for those gardeners who do not have the opportunity to harvest every 2 - 3 days. "Prestige" cucumbers are a real godsend for those who work and can come to their plot once every 10 - 14 days.

The next undoubted advantage is taste. Cucumbers grow completely without bitterness, the flesh is crunchy and does not contain rough seeds, with a bright cucumber aroma. The fruits can be classified as universal cucumbers. They are pleasant to eat fresh, use in salads, and in home canning. Moreover, if they have not outgrown the standard size of 7 - 8 cm, then they are pickled in jars.

If you collect fruits 9 - 10 cm long, then these are excellent pickling cucumbers. For those who are ready to grow cucumbers for sale, we can also recommend prestige cucumbers. This is due to the excellent appearance of the fruit.

They are rich, dark green in color, with moderately expressed prickly tubercles and lightened white tips, the weight of the cucumbers is 65 - 85 g, 94% of the collected cucumbers have an excellent presentation. As an advantage, it should be noted that the yield is very good. From one square meter you can harvest up to 19 kg of cucumbers, and with improved agricultural technology - all 25 kg per square meter. m. The first cucumbers appear very quickly, and subsequently the extended period of fruiting makes it possible to have fresh produce for a long period of time.

Since 2007, the hybrid has been recommended for the West Siberian, Central Black Earth regions and Altai Territory. The bushes are medium-sized, indeterminate, with a female type of flowering, with the formation of ovaries in bunches. Variety resistant to diseases and adverse weather conditions.No significant disadvantages have been identified with prestige cucumbers; the only thing that can be noted is the need to wash young cucumbers with a brush before eating in order to remove the rather prickly thorns.

Where and how to plant Prestige cucumbers

Preparing a bed for growing cucumbers

In the spring, as soon as the soil moves back one and a half shovels, you need to dig up a bed for cucumbers. It is better to choose the place where you grew up:

• tomatoes
• peppers
• cabbage of all types
• salad
• turnip

The minimum digging depth is the bayonet of a shovel. Before you start digging, you need to mark the bed. Its length can be arbitrary, but the width should not be measured more than 1.0 m. It is advisable to raise the bed 15 - 20 cm above the ground. Since cucumbers are a heat-loving crop, you can cover the dug up bed with film, under which it should stand for 10 days and warm up well. It is good to plant cucumber seedlings in such a bed.

Planting cucumber seedlings

Around the end of the first ten days of April, you can plant prestige cucumbers as seedlings. You should not sow seeds in a common box. For cucumber seedlings you need to take individual pots. Shoots appear quickly, no later than 5 - 6 days. As a rule, by the third ten days of May the weather is favorable for planting seedlings in the ground. By this time, the seedlings already have 5-6 true leaves. In the garden bed, at a distance of about 30 cm, holes are made into which the seedlings are simply transferred along with the soil from the seedling pot. The hole is covered with soil and watered well.

Sowing seeds in the ground

In the prepared bed, make a furrow 3 cm deep. If sowing occurs before May 15, then it is better to plant cucumbers with dry seeds in dry furrows. Place the seeds at a distance of 30 cm and cover with soil.If sowing occurs in the second half of May - early June, then cucumber seeds You need to soak it in water for 7-8 hours in advance, and pour the groove itself well with water before placing the seeds in it. After which the grooves are also covered with soil. You can dust the top with ground black pepper. Do not touch the bed until the seedlings appear.

Caring for Prestige cucumbers

First of all, cucumbers need to be weeded and watered regularly. Weeding can be combined with loosening the soil. Watering is carried out in the evening. Water temperature for irrigation + 18 degrees. Starting from 21 days after emergence, you need to dilute mineral or organic fertilizers and feed cucumbers every seven days.

"Agricola - 5", "Effecton - O" are suitable for this. It is worth noting such a technique when growing cucumbers as planting canopy crops. Most often, corn and sunflower are used for this.

They need to be planted a couple of weeks before the cucumbers. They will provide them with the necessary protection from the bright sun. Even if the year turns out to be unfavorable for, then planting a hybrid cucumbers "Prestige", you can be sure of a good harvest of this popular crop.

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