Japanese Method of Growing Cucumbers: Why More and More Gardeners Are Choosing It
Recently, more and more gardeners are choosing the Japanese method of growing cucumbers.
How to plant cucumbers using the Japanese method, says the expert of the online publication Belnovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
Japanese Method of Growing Cucumbers
The essence of the method is to plant cucumber seedlings not in the soil, but in sawdust.
Cucumbers grown in sawdust are less susceptible to disease and bear fruit longer.
The method is very simple. Take a suitable container, disinfect it with boiling water, fill it with sawdust a quarter full, pour boiling water over it, and after cooling, knead it with your hands until it becomes fine crumbs.
We lay out the seeds at small intervals, sprinkle them with crushed hot sawdust on top, cover with film, put them on the window, and water them periodically.
After the seedlings appear, water them with warm water and transplant them together with sawdust into the garden bed.
Earlier, the expert told how to renew the soil in a greenhouse without unnecessary costs.
