Indoor cucumbers, care rules

In winter, we all miss summer so much, but we so want to please our eyes with emerald greenery and eat fresh vegetables that were growing in the garden five minutes ago. While even a child can grow green onions at home, the situation is different with indoor cucumbers.

If you decide to grow indoor cucumbers, then before doing so you need to read special literature in order to have an idea of ​​the basic rules and nuances. First, you need to choose a self-pollinating variety of cucumbers, since cucumbers will grow in specific conditions. And those varieties that are pollinated by insects are more capricious and may simply not produce a harvest at home.

Cucumbers love sunny places, so in the house you need to choose window sills where there is a lot of light and warmth, that is, the south side. There should be no drafts on the window, as indoor cucumbers do not like this and may die. If the window is about one and a half meters wide, then about 5 plants can be placed on it. In winter, you can install fluorescent lamps on the window due to insufficient natural light.

For cucumbers, you need to choose suitable containers, such as flower pots, wooden boxes, the main thing is that there are drainage holes that will prevent water from stagnating. One plant needs approximately 5 kg of soil.

After the soil and place for cucumbers are ready, you need to germinate the seeds and then plant them in pots to a depth of half a centimeter, cover with film until shoots emerge.Indoor cucumbers need feeding, so they need to be fertilized and watered with special compounds. When the cucumber has 5 leaves, it needs to be tied up and the young shoots pinched, this is done so that the fruits appear faster.