How to properly feed cucumbers: experienced gardeners shared their secrets

02.01.2024 12:46

If you can develop a correct feeding scheme for cucumbers, then the vegetable harvest will certainly please you.

The cucumbers will grow beautifully shaped, tasty and without bitterness.

Also, additional feeding helps to significantly increase the number of fruits, reminds the expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", landscape designer and scientist-agronomist Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .

What you need to remember about fertilizing cucumbers

Correct diagram

The first time fertilizers are applied two weeks after transplanting the seedlings into the soil. After the vegetables begin to bloom, the second feeding is applied.

The third time vegetables are fed at the time of active fruiting. If you want to prolong this process, you can also add a fourth feeding.

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Herbal infusion

This is one of the best options for feeding cucumbers. You will need to fill any container one third with any weeds and pour in water. You need to wait 3-4 days.

After filtering the infusion, mix it with water. Take five parts of water for every one part of herbal infusion.

Litter

This is a real find for cucumbers. Pour some of the granules with ten parts of water and wait seven days. After that, it is recommended to take 10 liters of water per 1 liter of the resulting composition and start watering.

Earlier we reported how to increase tomato yields using yeast dressings .

Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor
 
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert / Belnovosti

Content
  1. What you need to remember about fertilizing cucumbers
  2. Correct diagram
  3. Herbal infusion
  4. Litter