Two crops of cucumbers in a greenhouse - how to achieve? (Khabarovsk region)
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STEP-BY-STEP DESCRIPTION OF GROWING TWO HARVESTS IN A GREENHOUSE
I like to experiment, and one day I decided to do this: should we try to collect two crops of cucumbers in a greenhouse? I have two of them: the first (3 × 4 m) for cucumbers, the second (XNUMXxb m) for tomatoes, both made of polycarbonate.
Hint: when the greenhouses were installed, the polycarbonate on the inside was packed with a thin film that the workers wanted to remove. I told them to leave it and carefully, without tearing it, installed it.
Now the greenhouse is not so hot, although it has two more through doors and two vents on top. After observing the plants, I stopped opening one door at all, as they feel comfortable. The greenhouses are already five and seven years old.
PARK OVER THE GROUNDS
I live in Khabarovsk, this is the Far East. We have a harsh climate and heavy land, so we have to constantly work with it.
I prepare a greenhouse for cucumbers in the fall: I remove all the remnants, wash it with a solution of laundry soap, remove 5 cm of the top layer of the earth with a pick-up shovel, put it in flower beds, then sow mustard and close it. Mustard quickly rises and grows, in early November I dig everything up with a shovel and leave it like that for the winter, I don’t throw snow. I have enough water, besides, I noticed that without snow the ground thaws faster.
Spring is coming. I open the greenhouse on March 10, spill two beds with boiling water with a biofungicide, cover them with a double black film and close the greenhouse. On the afternoon of March 15, I open the film, and steam comes out from under it. I harrow the ground with a rake and sow early varieties of radishes and dill - they are cold-resistant. I put arcs, insulate with lutrasil, and film, and blankets, since at night the temperature drops to -2 °, but during the day it is hot in the greenhouse. Seeds germinate in 7-10 days. I water the sprouts with warm water, but I don’t feed anything: the land in the greenhouse is oily, they have enough of everything.
Radishes are growing fast, and by May 9 we already have okroshka from our harvest. Having removed the radish, I prepare the soil for cucumbers. I bring horse humus, ash, vermiculite, onion peel, eggshell in the form of a powder and leave it like that. I am engaged in sowing seeds of cucumbers, choosing early varieties: Courage, German, Siberian garland.
I make sure that fruiting begins in 35-40 days. I take the land from the garden, distribute it in cups and water it with hot water with potassium permanganate before sowing. Seeds, not processed in any way, one or two pieces are immediately laid out in containers, I cover the tray with a film and put it in a warm place. I sow on April 20-25, seedlings appear in three to five days.
Tip: as soon as you see the pecking loops, immediately remove the film and put the pan in a cool place - this is necessary so that the seedlings of cucumbers and watermelons do not stretch.
When the third leaf appears, I take the seedlings to the greenhouse, keep them there for a week and plant them in a permanent place. Before that, I spill a row on the ridge with boiling water with a biofungicide, transfer the plants from the cups to the holes, put the arcs and cover, slightly opening the plantings during the day, so that the plants get used to the light.
And my cucumbers grow violently, begin to bear fruit and require careful care. It is necessary to monitor the harvesting of yellow leaves, and aphids, and diseases, and many others, but this is a separate conversation.
See also: Seedlings of cucumbers FROM A TO Z - K.S.KH. SCIENCE
GREENHOUSE FOR CUCUMBERS WITH HEATING
Well, I do all this, and I myself keep the second harvest in my head. How to grow and collect it? Since I have two beds, I leave one to bear fruit until the end of the season, and I decide to completely remove the second, because there are already few ovaries there. I prepare the soil anew, applying fertilizers, and on July 20-25 I sow cucumber seeds in cups: they should be super early - the ripening period is 30-35 days. When the third leaf appears, I plant the seedlings in a row, slightly covering with the lightest lutrasil. While the sprouts get used to the light, I put a biological fungicide in tablets under each bush.
Seedlings grow well, and in early September the first cucumbers appear. Fruiting goes until November, however, at the end of October, you have to put a heater at night. It’s expensive, of course, but what can you do, you want fresh cucumbers! We are now thinking about how to provide heat without electricity, stoves and other dangerous things.
We clean everything in the greenhouse on November 10 and prepare for next spring. Let's keep experimenting!
Reference by topic: Extending the fruiting of cucumbers in the greenhouse and saving them from ants and spider mites
SECOND CUCUMBER HARVEST - VIDEO
© Author: Valentina Semenovna PLOTNIKOVA
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