Summer residents are constantly honing their skills in an effort to increase the yield of vegetable crops in the same area.
This can be achieved by following the rules of agricultural technology and proper care of plants. The main thing is to distinguish useful advice from harmful ones. Let's find out whether it is necessary to pluck cucumber whiskers.
As you know, removing suckers during strawberry flowering allows you to increase the yield and grow larger berries. Will this method work with cucumbers?
Some gardeners are sure that the life hack works equally well for all garden crops. But in the case of cucumbers, nothing changes.
Myth and error?
In fact, the fruiting period of cucumbers is not extended because the gardener will tear off the excess shoots. And the harvest does not increase.
But this does not mean that the procedure is useless.
Why pluck your mustache?
Firstly, the runners are torn off from greenhouse crops in order to save free space. And not completely, but partially, so that they do not interfere with watering the plant and harvesting.
Secondly, they are not torn off completely, but trimmed. A "stump" should remain on the shoot so as not to cause damage to the main stem.
Thirdly, even in this case, you don’t have to pluck the whiskers if you let the plant grow along a special lattice.
And lastly, this growth dries out on its own within a month.
However, experience shows that most summer residents and gardeners prefer to get rid of excess growth.
