Cultivation of cucumbers on a round bed
Round bed for cucumbers
The main thing in this article is cucumbers and an unusual method of growing them.
I like to be engaged in agriculture. I can not wait for spring, when again I will go out to the kitchen for my pets. How are they under the snow?
Are they ill? I like to talk with plants, I sing songs to flowers. I have many roses, lilies, I adore dahlias. But I want to share my experience on growing cucumbers, especially for those who rarely come to the country.
So I also had when my husband and I lived in Tver. Now we have moved to the Penza region. We went to retirement, and now we have our own house. But back to the cucumber.
We make a bed, we draw circles on it (see the figure). From the circles take out the land to a depth of 30-40 cm and put it between the circles.
At the bottom of the circle, pour the humus (manure) with a layer of 10-15, see. Then, return the ground, but so that the diameter of the circle is below the bed level on 5-6,
The remaining ground is leveled in a bed between circles. At the edge of the circle we plant cucumbers (seeds, seedlings - it doesn’t matter). As the lashes grow, we fill the circles with mulch, I have mowed grass.
What is good about this method?
Cucumbers love watering under the root and do not like foliage. I just pour a bucket of water in the middle of the circle - and that's it, you can not water it for five days, the mulch keeps moisture, and the whips themselves are dry in the garden, basking in the sun.
Naked roots, for example, can be spudded from the edge of a circle, and there are no problems. No need to walk with a watering can throughout the garden and wade through the lashes.
Of course, someone already uses this method (I did not discover America), but I haven’t met him anywhere yet. My neighbors now plant cucumbers the only way - I liked it.
Reference by topic: Growing cucumbers in a warm garden - tips gardeners
All health, success in work and a clear sky above your head.
© Lyudmila Ushkina, Penza region
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CUCUMBERS DO NOT LOVE ACID
Here is my proven advice for summer residents and truck farmers. When growing cucumbers, I recommend that you pay attention to an important rule: they do not like acid soil, but when fertilizing with mineral fertilizers, the soil is oxidized. Acidity needs to be reduced. Water the soil once a month with freshly-dried lime (0,5 glass of lime per bucket of water). On m2 I spend 1 l of solution. Also, instead of lime, you can use ash (0,5 glass of ash per bucket of water). I would be happy if my advice would help.
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Cucumber Bed - West Course
Harvested - and immediately prepare a cucumber bed. It is necessarily located from east to west. I dig a trench, lay the top layer of soil nearby.
At the bottom of the trench, I lay down slowly the overgrazing leaves, the tops and well spills. Then I put a layer of manure, on it again a layer of earth, and on top again a layer of manure.
Finishes the ridge a layer of good garden land. Autumn training is over. In the spring, it remains only to put the bow and plant cucumbers.
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Cucumbers on apple
In the days of my youth there was an anecdote about an unlucky breeder who climbed the birch behind dill, and the watermelon fell on him from an apple tree. Watermelons are not watermelons, but here are cucumbers in our apple tree grown quite cute!
Last year, the garden with cucumbers was near the apple tree, near the southern border of the garden. The branches of the tree stretch to the south, that is, just toward the cucumber beds, and grow quite low. When the shelter was removed from the cucumbers, they actively went into growth, the whips clung to the apple branches and quickly crept up. A kind turned out at the apple tree funny: on a tree branch, through one, hang apples and cucumbers.
By the way, cucumber whips, grown on an apple tree, did not hurt anything, until the end of August they continued to bloom and tie healthy fruits. So the neighborhood of the two cultures was very successful!
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Harvest duo
There is not so much land on our farmstead, but I want to plant more different vegetables. So you have to trick a little. I remembered how farmers used to, and my parents too, planted corn and cucumbers. So last year I planted corn in the garden, and as its seedlings appeared, I stuck the seeds of cucumbers next to it. The neighbors looked at it with a smirk when they planted it, and with surprise when I was harvesting - both corn and cucumbers.
Scores of cucumbers neatly wrapped a corn trunk, and she thanks to watering, necessary for cucumbers, has grown above human growth. We welded and weeded her cob of wax ripeness, and the cucumbers were harvested until the first frosts.
With corn are still friends winding beans, beans. We shoot wonderful harvest!