Soaking cucumber seeds is a necessary condition for a good harvest.

We cannot imagine our life without cucumbers; we eat them fresh all summer, and canned all winter. And if the quality of the fruits themselves depends on the variety and sometimes on the weather, then the volume of the harvest, the speed of its germination and ripening depend on the correct planting of seeds.

In particular, many people mistakenly believe that soaking cucumber seeds is an optional measure. Cucumbers come from India, that is, from a tropical humid climate where air and soil humidity is off the charts. Therefore, it is quite logical to conclude that soaking cucumber seeds is a measure that is more necessary than desirable.

Preparing cucumber seeds for planting includes the following steps:

1. Warming up. To do this, the seeds are placed in bags and heated on a radiator.
2. Sorting. The seeds are poured with a 3% salt solution, and any damaged seeds that float up are removed.
3. Soak:

• treat seeds with growth stimulants
• directly soaking cucumber seeds in melt water from the freezer, heated to 28-30C
• It is better to soak seeds not in gauze, but in cotton fabric
• Soaked seeds must be handled very carefully, since once the hatched seedlings are damaged, they cannot be saved.

Soaking cucumber seeds helps them sprout faster and weed out damaged seeds, thereby saving time and space in containers.