Passion for gardening and vegetable gardening is a troublesome, entertaining and useful business.
In addition, it requires various kinds of investments and knowledge. It is not enough to simply be inspired by the desire to turn your garden plot into a vegetable and flower paradise.
It is necessary to support the desire by studying useful literature, the experience of professionals in gardening and horticulture, and knowledge of the simplest laws of botany and biology.
A garden plot is a kind of communal apartment for a huge variety of plants, each of which needs a favorable neighborhood for comfortable and productive living. And what plants do we not try to grow on our cherished piece of land to surprise others and please ourselves! But rarely does anyone manage without cucumber seedlings!
And it is not surprising, because this vegetable is one of the most beloved and useful, and is also irreplaceable in dietary nutrition in the fight against excess weight. No matter how simple and unpretentious it may seem, growing a cucumber is not easy.
Not only does it require special soil, a whole periodic table of useful minerals, warm water and sunbathing, not to mention the temperature regime, but it is also picky about its neighbors.
Enemies of cucumber
It must be said that there are quite a few of them, moreover, this is a popular group of plants in any garden:
- potato;
- leaf lettuce;
- spinach;
- all kinds of aromatic herbs.
Good neighbors
Here is a good company for a cucumber:
- radish;
- tomatoes;
- onion and garlic;
- pepper and eggplant.
A plant such as sunflower is also among the pleasant neighbors, but it is worth remembering that its root system is very powerful and requires a lot of nutrients, thereby depleting the soil far around it.
In addition to vegetable plants, cucumber seedlings also grow well with flower plants.
Flowers such as nasturtium and marigolds are excellent in combating harmful insects that love cucumber beds. The well-known tansy plant, with its distinct aroma, is surprisingly favorable to cucumber, repelling ants and flying insects that bother the ovaries of young cucumbers with their attention.
The main thing, perhaps, is not to forget about these rules when planting in the spring, then the cucumber harvest will definitely please you!
