How to prepare a cucumber bed for planting: a scheme that summer residents follow “from experience”
Since cucumbers are known to have a shallow root system, they enjoy the quality nutrition found in the top layer of soil.
In this regard, emphasizes the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , if you add a sufficient amount of nutrients to the soil before you start planting the crop, then you will only have to systematically maintain fertility, periodically adding fertilizers for this purpose.
So, before you start planting cucumbers, you should add compost or humus to the beds. You will need a bucket of either composition per square meter.
In addition, it won't hurt to dig up the bed and add mown grass to it at the same time.
The next step is watering using ash extract. To obtain it, you will need to infuse 1 liter of ash in 10 liters of water for 24 hours.
Please note: if you have not previously carried out preventive treatment of the soil against various types of diseases, now is the time to do so.
Various means are suitable for this purpose, for example, potassium permanganate or Bordeaux mixture.
In the process of direct planting of cucumbers in the holes it is also worth putting fertilizers - organic or mineral. In the first case, you can use manure, bird droppings, rotted leaves, while among the "mineral water" sodium ammophoska with microelements will do: for 1 root - 1 teaspoon.
