Cucumbers may not be the number one vegetable among summer residents, but they are certainly not the last vegetable in the ranking.
Some people are used to sowing seeds directly into the soil. But for early harvests, you can't do without seedlings. And to collect a bountiful harvest, you need to grow strong and vigorous seedlings, which is impossible without high-quality soil.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told how to prepare the ideal soil for cucumbers.
Let's start with the fact that the soil acidity level should not be more than 6.5-7. This is the basis.
We also exclude the presence of pathogenic environments, weed seeds, and so on.
Depending on access to resources, each summer resident can choose a suitable recipe for themselves.
Here are 4 recipe options.
First option
Mix peat, humus and rotted sawdust in a ratio of 2:2:1. Add one tablespoon of wood ash to the finished mixture for every 10 liters.
Then 1 teaspoon of urea and the same amount of superphosphate and potassium sulfate.
Second option
Mix turf soil and compost (humus) in equal proportions. Add 1 tablespoon of ash per 10 liters of the finished mixture.
Fertilizers: 10 g of potassium sulfate and 20 g of superphosphate.
Option three
Mix peat, humus, sawdust, sand and cow dung in a ratio of 6:1:1:1:1.
Option four
Turf soil, peat, humus and rotted sawdust are mixed in equal proportions.
Universal mixture
To do this, you need to mix garden soil and humus (rotted compost), peat, sawdust (sand) in a ratio of 2:1:1:1.
Before sowing seeds, fertilizers are applied that are necessary for a particular vegetable crop.
Previously, we talked about what soil indicators every gardener should know .
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
