Knowing your soil type will help you understand how many nutrients cucumbers need.
Thus, according to the expert of the online publication Belnovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , sandy soils leach out the substances necessary for plants, which is why they quickly become poor in terms of nutrition, while heavy soils are capable of retaining nutrients - in this case, the dose of fertilizers should be reduced.
But all garden soils have one thing in common: they can be improved by adding compost.
Experienced gardeners consider well-aged compost to be the best fertilizer for cucumbers.
Indeed, it contains only 2% nitrogen, which is slowly released over many years.
Because of this, compost is simply unable to cause uncontrolled vegetative growth, but instead gradually replenishes the reserves of nutrients contained in the soil, making them available to plants over a long period of time.
If you are wondering how best to add compost to your cucumber beds, there are several ways to do this.
For example, you can mulch cucumbers or cultivate the soil before planting - about a month in advance.
