No summer cottage season is complete without cucumbers. By providing proper care for the crop, you can harvest fresh fruits without interruption until autumn.
How abundant the fruiting will be depends largely on the time of sowing cucumber seeds. And for early harvests, cucumbers are planted as seedlings.
We will tell you when to sow cucumber seeds for seedlings in April 2023.
The weather is the main indicator in this regard, but it is better not to ignore the recommendations of the lunar calendar.
Deadlines
The seedlings can be planted in the garden or greenhouse 18-25 days after the emergence of shoots. When planting seedlings in a greenhouse, the sowing period is shifted to earlier dates.
In addition, it is important to remember that early-ripening varieties bear fruit 40-45 days after emergence, mid-ripening varieties 45-50 days, and late-ripening varieties 50-65 days.
Gardeners begin by sowing early ripening crops.
Preparation
A mandatory procedure is disinfection in a solution of potassium permanganate.
Sowing is carried out dry or with preliminary germination of seeds. For this, wet gauze bags are prepared in which the seeds are kept at +25 +30 degrees Celsius. Usually, after 3 days, you can start planting.
Lunar calendar
This month, the best time for processing and germinating cucumber seeds is the 7th-9th, 16th, 17th, 25th and 26th.
Planting begins on April 5 and 22, as well as April 25 and 26.
After planting, the container is covered with a film or a lid, which is removed only after the shoots appear. The air temperature should not be below +20 degrees Celsius. The range from 22 to 26 with a plus sign is considered comfortable.
