Agricultural technology for cucumbers. Planting plants in open ground

Agricultural technology for cucumbers includes such aspects of growing this crop as selecting a suitable site, ensuring optimal temperature conditions, proper soil preparation, compliance with certain planting standards that will ensure a good harvest, watering and fertilizing the plants, as well as the harvest itself.

Thus, the agricultural technology of cucumbers calls choosing the right place for planting one of the key points in ensuring good growth and development of plants. This crop is extremely heat-loving (plants feel best when the thermometer reaches 17-25 degrees), so it must be planted in sunny areas, and the beds should be slightly raised. Soil preparation is also important. The soil must be non-acidic (otherwise it will have to be limed) and contain a sufficient amount of nutrients, in particular nitrogen. To increase fertility, a mixture of potassium salt and superphosphate should be added to the soil on the site in the fall, or ash and manure should be used as fertilizer.

Cucumbers should be planted in the ground (this can be done either by seedlings or without seedlings) at the end of May, when the air temperature is already high enough and the soil has time to warm up. Planting is best done according to the 10x60 pattern, placing several seeds in each hole, and then, when they germinate, removing weak shoots.It is advisable to transfer the seedlings into the ground directly in peat pots, since small sprouts are quite weak and can be easily damaged.