Growing cucumbers in bags is a real way to increase yields

Gardening enthusiasts often experiment with ways to grow vegetables, achieving higher yields with a minimum of maintenance. In this regard, the cultivation method is especially interesting cucumbers in bags.

Content:

• Preparing cucumber seeds
• Preparing the landing site
• Sowing seeds
• Seedling care: watering and feeding
• Advantages and disadvantages of the cultivation method

Preparing cucumber seeds

Seeds cucumbers for planting in bags are prepared as usual:

• Warm up by putting it in a rag bag and hanging it over a warm place, for example, a radiator.
• Before sprouting, they are poured with warm salt water, and the floating seeds are removed, because they are unsuitable for planting.
• Then the seed is hardened by keeping it in warm water for a day, followed by placing it in the refrigerator for three days.

The seeds are now ready for germination. It is best to use two-year-old seeds for growing cucumbers in this way, since they give more female flowers from which cucumbers will be tied.

If we are going to plant seeds in the ground, then we are waiting for the sprouts to hatch.

When preparing seedlings, we observe the appearance of leaves. There should be at least three of them on the stem. We begin to prepare cucumber seeds for sowing in April.

Preparing the landing site

For planting cucumbers you need to prepare the following:

• Dense polyethylene bags.
• A wooden stick about two meters high.
• Hollow tubes for glaze with holes.

Then we choose a place on the site where the cucumbers will grow. The best thing is one in which the sun will not burn the cucumber leaves and the plants will be shaded. A good place for this will be a place near the wall of the house, where there is no wind. And it is more convenient to attach the support for cucumber lashes to the wall.

To make the bed of bags stable, a corresponding depression is made under it in the ground.

If selected for landing bags made of polyethylene, it is better to insert one bag into another for reliability. Well suited for the procedure cultivation cucumber bags of flour or sugar. They are filled with mixed soil from manure, peat, garden soil. Such soil allows moisture and air to pass through well, which is necessary for the future. harvest.

Having filled the bag halfway, a two-meter stick pointed at the end is driven in the center. It is needed so that the ropes go away from it, along which cucumbers will trail. Hollow tubes with drilled holes must be inserted into the ground, which are necessary for watering and feeding plants. These tubes are placed a short distance from the stick in a circle. In conclusion, add more soil to the bag, pouring some wood ash into it, and tuck the edges to make a side. Some summer residents wrap the top of the bag with tape for the stability of the side. The prepared bags are best placed close to each other.

Sowing seeds

Prepared the seeds no more than 3-4 pieces are planted on top, and the rest are planted in holes cut on the sides. Side cuts in the bags should be made evenly, away from each other. No more than 15 cucumber seeds are sown in each bag.In order to better preserve heat and moisture, the bags are covered from above with a film or other covering material.

It will be comfortable for a plant in such a bed when the bags are placed along the trellis, because cucumbers as they grow, tendrils cling to the trellis and crawl up. If the trellis is low, then the lashes can simply be thrown over it. With a trellis height of more than one meter, the cucumber stalks are simply tied up with twine.

Some gardeners do not put bags on, but lay them on their side, making cross-shaped cuts, planting seeds in grooves.

It all depends on the characteristics of the site, on the practical skills of the summer resident. Cucumbers are sown in the first half of May at an air temperature above 15 degrees, so that in a month and a half you can feast on them. If you want to get bountiful harvests from the cucumber garden all summer long, then it is better to sow both early and late-ripening varieties.

Seedling care: feeding and watering

Watering cucumber seedlings:

• Cucumbers love water, so water them abundantly.
• Only at the beginning flowering of vegetables, watering is reduced for better fruit set.
• After the plants are slightly wither, watering begins abundantly.
• The best time for this is evening.
• Cucumbers also love spraying: there is less dust on the leaves, the air around is humidified.

Water for irrigation enters the hollow tubes through a hose or watering can.

If such watering seems inconvenient and time-consuming, then it can be done with water from a bucket. Before this, the water should warm up and settle. Since moisture remains in the bags for a long time, it is necessary to check the moisture of the earth in them every day. It is also impossible to over-water the plant, otherwise it will die.

You can also feed the plant through these tubes:

• As soon as the first shoots of the plant appear, a weak solution of chicken droppings must be added to the soil.
• Top dressing cucumber usually consists of a combination of mullein with mineral fertilizers: superphosphate, ammonium nitrate, potassium salt.
• Do not forget, when feeding cucumbers, about the correct dosage. fertilizers: Excess can cause the soil to become acidic or salt marshes.
• Some gardeners are fed with herbal infusion, using any growing on the site, but nettle is preferred, as it is especially useful. Just pour the prepared herb with water and insist for a week.
• Fertilize cucumbers after watering 2-3 times during the summer.

On hot days at noon, cucumbers are shaded with branches or shingles. This contributes to a better harvest. Caring for vegetables growing in bags is simple, does not require a lot of time and effort.

Advantages and disadvantages of the cultivation method

This new method cultivation cucumber has a number of advantages, especially for those who have a small summer cottage. Having saved space for this vegetable, we will not lose in the harvest, but we will win. In addition, it is easy and convenient to care for such a crop, they do not require weeding, pests cannot get on the bed packed in protective material. Plants are more often ventilated, so the risk of disease is reduced.

Cucumbers with this method of cultivation are always clean and bear fruit for a long time.

For those who do not have a land plot, and they grow some types of vegetables in boxes on a balcony or loggia, this method of planting cucumbers is fully suitable. If you follow all the rules glaze, feeding, cucumbers will delight you with their juiciness, loud crunch and harvest.

The only drawback of such a planting is that the cucumbers planted in the side slots will need constant watering, since the bags heat up more from the sides and the soil in them dries up. Therefore, for planting, it is better to take dense white bags. Advantages of the growing method cucumbers there are many in the bags, but there are almost no shortcomings, therefore summer residents use it on their plots with pleasure.

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