Cucumbers should be green, and when they develop a yellow coating, there is more reason to worry about the harvest.
Any gardener, both experienced and novice, can miss the moment on which the quality of the harvest depends. To prevent this from happening, you need to act proactively.
We'll tell you what kind of mixture summer residents prepare and then collect cucumbers in buckets.
To prevent the bushes from getting sick, you can use pesticides, but then you may have doubts about the quality of the harvest.
Folk remedy
They say that cucumbers will neither turn yellow nor get sick if you use this composition.
You will need:
- 250 ml milk;
- 200 ml of potassium permanganate solution (dark pink);
- 1.5 g of boric acid;
- 60 drops of iodine;
- 1 tbsp. urea.
How to proceed
Actually, there is nothing complicated in the preparation. The ingredients are mixed and then diluted with water, bringing the total volume to 10 liters.
Then the solution is poured into a sprayer and the treatment is carried out. It is recommended to do this early in the morning.
Treat thoroughly so that the solution gets onto the back side of the leaves.
