How to Double Your Cucumber Yield: A Simple Trick That Uses Milk

02.03.2023 11:22
Updated: 14.04.2023 10:18

Not all gardeners know about the existence of a simple way to increase the yield of cucumbers.

There is no need to use numerous fertilizers. Nor is it necessary to buy expensive preparations.

It is enough to apply standard fertilizers, and also use… milk.

Yes, it is this white drink that will help accelerate the development of the plant and the formation of fruits.

How to Turn Milk into Fertilizer

Milk must be heavily diluted with water. If the product is used in its pure form, serious harm will be caused to the garden crop.

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So, a glass of the drink should be poured into an empty bucket. The same container should be filled to the brim with plain water.

You will get a “cocktail” with which you should water the soil twice a month - until the end of the cucumber fruiting period.

The effect of "milky" irrigation

Milk is a source of potassium. Thus, "milk" irrigation ensures rapid replenishment of the potassium component deficiency in the soil.

The drink also promotes the proliferation of beneficial microorganisms in the soil.

Cucumber bushes receive all the compounds they need. Fruit formation accelerates. As a result, there are quite a lot of large, tasty, juicy and crunchy vegetables.

Kurchev Anton Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief


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  1. How to Turn Milk into Fertilizer
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