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Why experienced gardeners plant sunflowers between cucumbers: a useful trick
29.10.2024 06:50
The goal of any vegetable grower is, of course, generous harvests.
To ensure that your efforts are not in vain, a cucumber, for example, requires both timely watering and proper feeding.
Plants are also very sensitive to the proximity of crops.
A perfect match for cucumber
Ordinary sunflowers have these qualities.
The results will be noticeable even if you plant just a dozen seeds along the cucumber bed.
What are the benefits of being neighbors?
Cucumbers always grow better quality near sunflowers.
They turn out to be much more aromatic in taste and have a more filling consistency, which is why they have a characteristic crunch.
In the heat, it is the sunflowers that protect plants from the aggressive rays of the sun, taking the form of a kind of curtain.
Many people know that when the weather is hot and the temperature is +30 and above, the cucumber will be poorly pollinated and will shed its ovary. But the sunflower will not allow this to happen. The crop prolongs the fruiting of cucumbers until autumn.
An important advantage is that the sunflower becomes a good support for the liana, onto which it can easily cling and crawl upward.
Therefore, there are a lot of positive aspects from growing together.
