Cucumbers are a favorite culture of most summer residents. It is versatile in use, with proper care it gives a rich harvest. For good growth, the culture must be provided with sufficient moisture and heat. Already in June, ovaries can be seen - the first rudiments of the harvest. However, it happens that there are many of them, and the culture has stopped developing. Therefore, it is necessary to understand why cucumbers grow poorly, whether they like a draft, what can be done so that the culture begins to grow well again.

Why cucumbers stopped growing

If the cucumbers have stopped growing, you need to understand why this happened. For this, it is important to analyze the planting time, care and the conditions under which they grow.

The main reasons for the growth stagnation are:

• Poor quality seeds... Low quality planting material can be seen during the period of growing seedlings. It grows poorly, gives weak shoots. In this case, small leaves turn yellow before planting in open ground.
• Early disembarkation- the culture loves warmth, so you should not plant it on the first warm days that came after the frost. For the beneficial growth of cucumbers, it is important that average daily temperature was at least 15 degrees. If the landing occurred earlier, nothing can be done. The summer resident can only learn a lesson and not make such mistakes next year.
• Lack of nutrients during the growing season- cucumbers do not develop, the fruits are flabby and deformed. This is often due to a lack of nitrogen. To do this, it is necessary to feed the culture under the root with a urea solution. If the fruits resemble a pear in shape, they do not have enough potassium, they need to be poured with potassium sulfate or a solution of wood ash.
• Not proper care - growing cucumbers requires careful maintenance. It is necessary to regularly loosen the soil, water it, and form whips. Best harvest it turns out on the side shoots, so you should pinch them 40-45 cm, cut the top of the main stem.
• Lack of moisture- cucumbers begin to bloom, but small cucumbers do not grow. Watering must be done three times a week. warm water... When flowers form, do not pour water on the leaves so as not to knock off the ovaries.
• Poor pollination- if the cucumbers have begun to set, but do not grow, the reason is poor pollination. To remedy the situation, you can spray the culture with a solution of sugar with lemon balm infusion. The product will attract bees and improve pollination.
• Development of diseases- a common disease in cucumbers is powdery mildew, appears as white spots on the culture. To get rid of it, you must use a mixture of skim milk, a few drops of iodine and warm water... The remedy will relieve the problem, the plants will slowly begin to recover and set fruits.
• Cucumbers may stop growing due to the development of anthracnose... This is a disease in which spots appear on the top of the leaf. At the bottom of the leaflet, a pinkish bloom forms, turning into sores. All damaged parts must be removed to grow a good crop.

Cucumber strings

Cucumbers are bad, grow slowly: how to feed

If the cucumbers have stopped growing, what to do should be decided as soon as possible. First of all, in order for the culture to grow, it is necessary to feed it with special fertilizers, which can be both chemical and natural.

Natural dressings

Bread dressing- fill 2/3 a bucket with bread crusts, add water, put under a press for a week. For use, it is necessary to dilute it three times, add 50 g of universal fertilizer per 12 liters of water. Process the crop at the beginning of flowering and before wilting once a week.

On a note! Such a product has an acidic environment, therefore it is excellent for alkaline soils.

Ash. To get a good cucumber harvest, you do not need to pour under the root of the culture a large number of funds. It is worth remembering that the method is not permissible with the simultaneous use of nitrogen-containing fertilizers. It is worth stopping processing when the first small fruits appear.

Brilliant green solution

Yeast feeding. For cooking, you need to take 10 grams of dry yeast, dilute them in 10 liters of warm water, add a tablespoon of sugar. Let it brew for 2.5 hours, then dilute with 50 liters of water. Used for rapid growth and the appearance of large ovaries.

Top dressing with brilliant green and iodine. Used to eradicate diseases. The roots are treated with Zelenka, for this 10 drops must be dissolved in a bucket of water. Iodine is used for leaves and shoots. It is necessary to dilute 10 ml of iodine in 10 liters of water. Spray the culture.

Tillage

Mullein treatment. Folk way, allowing you to grow a rich harvest. It can be processed with such a tool at any stage of crop growth. Dilute a few cakes of cow dung in 10 liters of water.

Infusion onion peel. It is necessary for her to fill a saucepan of 3 liters, pour water. Insist for a day, then dilute with water in a ratio of 1:10.

Often, summer residents have a situation in which cucumbers began to grow poorly, how to feed them is easy to decide, there is a great choice.

Chemicals

• Preparations Kemir, Universal, Aquamarine - are used when the seedlings are moved from the house from the balcony or window sill to the ground or to the greenhouse. In order for the shoots to sprout, it is necessary to dilute 5-7 grams of fertilizer in 10 liters of water, water the hole.
• Micronutrient fertilizers containing boron - when treated with such a means, the culture will begin to grow actively, it will form a large number of ovaries. 1 granule is used per 1 liter of water.

Cucumbers are tied, but do not grow: care problems

If the ovary stops when growing a culture, then this arises for a number of reasons. These include:

• Low air temperature.
• Few nutrients, poor soil.
• The bed on which the culture grows is in a shaded place, because of this, the ovaries are slowly formed.
• Bushes too dense.
• Watering cold water.
• Excess or lack of moisture.
• Improper feeding.

In order to rectify the situation, it is necessary to take measures:

• Water only with warm water, while the amount of water should be dosed.
• Who likes drafts, tomatoes or cucumbers? Cucumbers are afraid of drafts, so do not plant them in places open to the wind.
• Plant the crop only in beds open to direct sunlight.
• Feed with fertilizers in the correct ratio.
• Treat the seeds before planting with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
• Feed the plant at the root with a urea solution.
• Cut off the main stem, pinch the side ones.
• Get the attention of the bees.
• Treat with pest control products.

In addition, to obtain ovaries, it is necessary to attract bees. For this, special formulations are used that can be purchased in a store or prepared independently from sugar and lemon balm infusion.

Cucumbers do not grow fruits, what should I do? First of all, it is necessary to identify the cause of the problem.

On a note. If she grows in open ground, cover at night with a special covering material. This will help avoid temperature fluctuations.

Cucumbers are a crop that requires attention and care to get a rich harvest. Before planting it in open ground, you need to find out what conditions are necessary for plants, cucumbers like a draft or not, how and when to fertilize them. After that, prepare the garden bed, properly cultivate the land, then plant the seedlings and feed it. If the cucumbers are blooming, but the small cucumbers are not growing, most likely the matter is in improper care.

Cucumbers love to drink a lot. It's been a long time known fact... Everyone who has their own private plot or a vegetable garden, knows about it. But not everyone knows how to water cucumbers correctly. Too much is not good either.

Improper watering can cause many problems for the plant and its owner. To avoid such troubles, let's look at the most common misconceptions.

Cold water is taboo

There is an opinion that you should not drink cold water for cucumbers. But it is recommended to water them in the evening. Well yes, ah wet ground at night - just boiling water. Doesn't cool down at all. It even heats up by itself and envelops the roots with warmth.

Cold water is not ice cold. Cucumbers can be easily watered with cold water. Healthy plants will tolerate this procedure absolutely fine. And the sick and without your help will die safely.

By the way, opponents of cold watering, do you know that one well-developed plant requires up to 6 liters of liquid per day? And you can heat the barrel to water the plantings normally. And if these plantings are not two beds in a greenhouse, but a good hundred square meters or two? For a large family, for example. How many of these barrels will you need each day of the growing season?

We don't listen to anyone, pour cold water over the cucumbers. Anyway, the wet earth will cool down at night.

Watering in the middle of the day is prohibited

Some sources strictly forbid drinking cucumbers in the middle of the day. Why, the sun uses every droplet as a lens! And he will burn all the delicate leaves completely! Hmm. That's why after each rain, as soon as the rays appear from behind the clouds, all vegetation turns to ash. Flashes straight! Well, what about? Droplets there, all sorts of lenses ... No? Doesn't it blaze? So why should cucumbers burn?

And immediately they call for sprinkling cucumbers when high temperature air. Where is your logic, gentlemen?

Before a drop becomes a lens, it evaporates. And if it does not evaporate, then the sun is not so baking as to burn the surface.

In the sun, in the very heat, the leaves lose their turgor and hang in limp rags. And if they are not watered, they will definitely burn. First, moisture evaporates from the leaves, then yellow dots appear. These are the first signs of a lack of fluid in the cells. And then the leaf dries up completely. From the fact that he was not helped in the summer heat. So it burned down. It is very thin, moreover, moisture evaporates from it very quickly.

Therefore, we boldly water the cucumbers even during the day, as soon as the thermometer shows above + 27 ° C. This will refresh the leaves, increase the humidity around the plants. Watering during the day in the heat will not allow the pollen to become sterile, to crumble to the ovaries, and to water the cucumbers right through the risen leaves.

Watering at the root causes disease

It is strictly forbidden to water the plantings of cucumbers at the root. Supposedly, this causes the appearance of diseases and the stem begins to rot. Punished to pour water only in the aisles and no closer than 20 cm to the point of growth. And so from generation to generation. Children learn from their parents. They dutifully water the land next to the bushes and wait for the harvest. Moreover, they do not spud the bare stem, but how will it rot?

Eh, have you ever seen the root system of a cucumber? Yes, it does not exceed 15 cm in circumference! And even less in length. Everything that is poured beyond these sizes is in vain. The roots simply won't get the water you need. Cucumbers are watered only at the root! Otherwise he won't get drunk. And nothing will be washed out there. Of course, if you hit from a hose under strong pressure, it will scatter all the soil into the trash. But if you water it carefully, then everything will be fine.

At the same time, for the growth of additional roots, it is simply necessary to huddle the bushes. If the main root system starts to rot, then the plant will have enough additional stem roots for nutrition. Sometimes this is a real salvation for a diseased plant.

By the way, cucumbers start to hurt and rot from a cool temperature. environment, not watering at the root. Remember the cold August nights - what happens to the cucumber lashes?

Watering once a day is a mockery

Who there recommends watering cucumbers two or even three times a day? Show your fit. Yes, show all your three bushes. You give such “valuable” advice because you have nothing planted. You would have five or ten beds. We would have looked at your three-time watering. And then in the summer there is nothing else to do, except to carry water for cucumbers all day. Or you have a lot of water. And what about those who grow cucumbers, but are not rich in water?

Water the cucumbers once a day. It doesn't matter in the morning or in the afternoon. The main thing is to soak the ground under the bush to a depth of about 11-13 cm. It no longer makes sense, the roots cannot be longer. Naturally, you don't need to water on a cloudy or rainy day. But at an air temperature above + 31 ° C, you will have to do another watering, about in the middle of the day. This will help the plantings withstand the heat more easily.

By the way, if the soil under the bush remains moist until the next watering according to the schedule, then you can safely skip it. This means that the plantings have enough liquid and they did not use all of it. It is possible that there is a normal amount of water in the air. This also allows you to take a break from your daily watering.

Bitter means little watered

There is a misconception that if the cucumbers did not receive enough moisture, then they will be bitter. And so they just need to be filled with water, so that it stands in the beds. This is not true, after all, you do not grow rice so that the roots can float in the water.

The cucumber becomes bitter when the temperature is above + 32 ° C during the day and below + 16 ° C at night. That is sharp drops during the day they make the plants experience shock. It is he who makes the production of bitter substances. What to do?

The way out of the problem situation is very simple. In case of strong daytime heat, it is imperative to sprinkle the plantings in order to reduce the air temperature around the plants. And land them on warm beds so that the roots are not cool at night. Thanks to these procedures, the difference in daily temperatures can be significantly reduced. This will help the cucumbers survive without severe shock. This means that there will be no bitterness in the fruits.

Watering from above is necessarily a disease

Who is against watering cucumbers from above? Straight through the leaves and fruits. What do you have against high humidity? We remember where the cucumbers came from to our beds. From tropical rainforests. It is very damp there, everything flows, drips and pours right over the leaves. And nothing in a cucumber rots or falls off.

What's the secret? In air temperature. The tropics are humid, stuffy, but not hot. Namely, warmth. In our middle lane it's very hot in summer. And cucumbers need moisture and warmth. Therefore, it is simply necessary to bring down the air temperature near the plants by watering from above. With proper agricultural technology and good land, diseases will not occur. And if the soil has not been treated with antibacterial drugs, then at least pour water here, at least forget it. All the same, the whips will catch some kind of infection.

Drip irrigation is a panacea

Many people install a drip irrigation system on the beds with cucumbers. Not a bad idea. You just need to set it up correctly in order to have the proper effect. For example, one hose is laid on two beds. No loopback. What happens? At the barrel itself, water flows out more strongly, and at the far end of the bed it barely drips. All the pressure, albeit weak, flows out first. Eventually long-distance landings do not receive their portion of life-giving moisture. What to do?

The solution is very simple. Lay hoses or pipes in loops or rings. Where there is an exit, there must be an entrance at the same time. As a result, it turns out that the pressure will press simultaneously from both ends of the hose. Meeting approximately in the middle of the pipe, the speed of water outflow from all holes will be the same at the same time. Accordingly, the entire garden bed will receive approximately the same amount of moisture.

And further. Lay hoses or pipes so that water flows directly under the root. So, even in the most intense heat, it will reach the plant. And sometimes you look, and a wet spot with drip irrigation formed next to the bush, 20-25 centimeters. And after all, the owners of this outrage firmly believe that the roots of cucumbers are quite capable of overcoming this tiny distance in order to get drunk. The owners do not understand that this is tantalum flour for the plant. Being near water and not being able to enjoy it. Water the cucumbers, not the ground next to them.

How to water cucumbers correctly? Get rid of stereotypes and start doing it right. Then the number of fruits will increase significantly. Or continue in the old fashioned way ... to harvest the unfortunate harvest.

Video: how to water cucumber seedlings

Experienced summer residents try to minimize the use of chemical fertilizers, preferring folk remedies. They are especially sensitive to this issue, feeding, since young green plants accumulate nitrates. At correct application folk remedies you get high.

Folk remedies for feeding cucumbers for growth

Consider what are the most common and effective means can be used for feeding cucumbers to accelerate the growth of lashes.

Bread

If your bread is dry, don't rush to throw it away. It can be used to make an excellent top dressing for any plants, including cucumbers. Crusts of brown bread are poured into the bucket so that 1/3 of the free space remains. Pour bread with water, put a press on top and leave the bucket in a warm place for a week and a half.

Bread leaven is diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 3. For 12 liters of solution, add 1.5 tablespoons of universal fertilizer. Cucumbers are fed with this fertilizer every week. If the soil is acidic, add chalk to the bread solution.

Yeast

Yeast feeding has many advantages:

• improves root formation in plants;
• the agent increases the immunity of cucumber seedlings;
• with insufficient lighting, cucumber seedlings become more hardy;
• it is an effective growth stimulant.

To prepare a yeast solution, 10 g of dry yeast are poured into a 10-liter container with warm water, 2 tablespoons of sugar are added. Such a remedy is insisted for 2 hours, after which it is diluted in 50 liters of water. After the first feeding, the cucumbers begin to actively build up the vegetative mass, fruit ovaries appear faster. But apply this folk fertilizer it is possible only after transplanting the seedlings to a permanent place (after 2 weeks) and the second time when phosphorus fertilization has already been introduced.

Ash

If the cucumbers grow poorly, develop poorly, it is likely that the plants lack calcium. The most affordable folk remedy, which contains this trace element, is wood ash. For the entire growing season, cucumbers are fed with ash infusion 5-6 times. The very first feeding is carried out when 2 leaves appear on the plant, the second, when flowering and active growth of lashes begins.

Ash is brought in dry form (crushed), sprinkling it before watering. Ash infusion is done as follows: 10 tablespoons of ash are poured into a 5-liter bucket and left to infuse for 10 days, stirring the liquid from time to time.

Herbal infusion

Perhaps one of the most effective and affordable folk remedies for accelerating the growth of cucumbers and other crops is the herb infusion. For its preparation, you can take any plants without roots and seeds. Nettle, mother and stepmother, quinoa, burdock are best fermented. The barrel is 2/3 filled with chopped grass, adding the rest of the volume with water. The barrel should be kept in a warm place. Such fertilizer should be infused for at least 10 days. Before feeding, a liter of nutrient fluid is diluted in 10 liters of water and cucumbers are poured at the root.

The harvest of cucumbers is completely dependent on watering and feeding

How to feed cucumbers for growth

To receive good harvest, in addition to a properly prepared garden bed, fertilizing after planting in a greenhouse is also important. Experts recommend carrying out four dressings per season:

1. The first is two weeks after disembarkation;
2. The second is during the flowering period;
3. The third - during the ripening of fruits;
4. The fourth is to extend the fruiting stage.

Please note: When using chemical fertilizers, the accumulation of harmful substances in fruits.

To grow organic products, you can water cucumbers using organic fertilizing, proven by folk recipes:

1. Manure, chicken droppings, peat compost;
2. Infusions of herbs, plants;
3. Ash;

Please note: It is important to carry out the feeding procedure correctly. During warm summer top dressing is applied to the ground. If the weather is cool, do foliar feeding.

Required fertilization rules:

1. Fertilizer is applied after watering;
2. In the evening or early morning;
3. In cloudy weather.

Nitrogen fertilizers

The plant needs nitrogen fertilizers. With a lack of nitrogen after planting, cucumber seedlings begin to grow rapidly, but ovaries do not form.

Signs of nitrogen deficiency:

Fertilization with chemical nitrogen fertilizers during the fruiting period, it promotes the accumulation of nitrates in fruits. For feeding it is necessary to use natural remedies:

1. Urea (ash free);
2. Watering or spraying: mullein, infusion of green grass, chicken droppings.
3. Top dressing of cucumbers in the greenhouse with folk remedies

Proper care and timely feeding contribute to long-term fruiting. It is important to use natural, natural ingredients as fertilizers:

1. Dried and ground banana peel is added to the soil when planting seedlings. When rotting, the peel releases nitrogen and potassium, which cucumbers need to grow quickly.
2. Green fertilizer is quite popular among gardeners. The cut grass is poured into large capacity water and leave to ferment for ten days. After that, a liter of concentrate is diluted in a bucket of water and watered.

Zelenka and iodine

The composition of brilliant green contains a large amount of trace elements, especially copper. For the rapid growth of cucumbers, 10 drops of brilliant green are added to a bucket of water and watered with a solution of the plant. This top dressing is good for a swampy area.

REFERENCE: Iodine has a similar effect. It not only nourishes, but also heals plants (5 ml of iodine is dissolved in five liters of water).

Onion peel

Onion peel solution to prevent yellowing of leaves

When the leaves turn yellow, a solution of onion husks helps. In addition to the treatment provided, cucumbers begin to grow rapidly. A glass of husk is required for eight liters of water. After boiling, set the solution to infuse until it cools down.

Chicken droppings are no less effective. Place dry droppings in a container by a third, fill with water. Leave for 5 days, stirring the solution periodically. For watering, dilute 4 times.

How to feed cucumbers after planting in the ground

The stage of formation of the root system is one of the most important, since the yield depends on it. For rapid growth and strengthening, as soon as the first leaves appear, watering is necessary. For watering use:

1. Nitroammophoska solution (spoon on a bucket of water);
2. Prepared mullein composition (0.5 liters per 10 liters of water);
3. Nettle infusion;
4. A weak manganese solution.

Organic fertilizers

It is very important that the ash is woody, free from debris or plastic

1. Ash... In addition to a large amount of trace elements, ash contains:

• Calcium, which helps the lashes grow, form a green mass;
• Potassium - promotes the formation of ovaries;

1. Rock salt, activating growth, capable of accumulating water in plants.

Ash water is used for rapid growth. To prepare ash water, a full glass of ash is added to five liters of water. Leave for 10 days, stirring occasionally. You can also pour soda over the cucumbers, the effect of this watering is similar to the use of ash.

REFERENCE: It is permissible to use dry ash (sprinkle the soil under the plant before watering). Up to six dressings are carried out per season at the rate of a glass of concentrate per 10 liters of water.

Bread dressing

Dried bread slices are perfect as a top dressing. Such feeding will accelerate growth and improve the fruiting of cucumbers. The yeast included in the bread stimulates the active growth of vegetable crops. Watering is recommended every 10 days. Top dressing is carried out throughout the growing season. They can be used both outdoors and in a greenhouse. For watering or spraying, the solution is diluted three times. To prepare the sourdough in a bucket with a lid, two-thirds of it is filled with bread crumbs or bread and poured with water at room temperature. Then the load is closed and the load is placed on the lid. Withstand for seven days in warm place, then filter.

Such bread will be useful not only on the table, but also in the garden.

Yeast

Also, natural yeast is used to accelerate growth.

Yeast promotes the rapid and vigorous growth of cucumbers

Fertilizing cucumbers during flowering and fruiting

Most often, gardeners use manure as a top dressing. It includes chemical substances that are needed to get high yield: potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen. For irrigation, the concentrate is diluted 10 times. Dilute fresh manure at a ratio of 1:20 with water; dry water requires 4 times more than manure. Insist 10 days. It is also important when watering is performed, in the morning or in the evening. Experienced gardeners prefer to water in the morning hours, before the sun rises high above the horizon, so everything nutrients assimilated as much as possible during daylight hours.

Let's summarize

In order for the cucumber culture to grow well and develop, it is not necessary to use complex compositions and chemicals... You can use things that are familiar in everyday life, since they have a lot of useful properties.

Video: When and what to feed cucumbers

Cucumber is considered the most unpredictable vegetable crop... Improper care will ruin the whole future harvest. Today we will pay attention to such a problem as feeding. The quality of the fruit depends on them. Let's see how and what to fertilize cucumbers.

Start

Healing and nutritious feeding should be done with early period development. Accordingly, the seedlings must also receive the necessary components. This is the key to the health and fertility of the plant. Top dressing at this stage is divided into different time periods. Let's consider each of them separately:

You have learned how to fertilize cucumbers at the seedling stage. Let's move on to the next important step.

Transfer

The next important step is to relocate the seedlings to open ground. For each cucumber, this is a huge stress, which will help to cope with proper care and high-quality feeding. Before the procedure, take Special attention the following points:

1. The soil should be loose, nutritious. Moisture needs to penetrate well inside.
2. The cucumber has small roots, so in the trench before planting, add organic fertilizer... This will additionally warm the soil during frosts.
3. The cucumber bed should be warmed by sunlight, it is advisable to avoid strong drafts.
4. If you can't avoid getting wind, then you can plant corn next to the cucumbers. It will protect from drafts and in addition plants can spread their long lashes on it.
5. For ideal growth of cucumbers, a temperature of 25 to 30 degrees must be maintained. It is advisable to protect the bed with covering material in the northern and middle regions.

Now it's worth moving on to the question of how to fertilize cucumbers in the open field.

Top dressing in the fresh air

Fertilization of vegetables in the open field should be carried out systematically. The very first time is carried out during transplantation of seedlings. To do this, prepare the following solution:

• potassium salt;
• superphosphate;
• ammonium nitrate;
• potassium chloride.

Everything is thoroughly mixed and brought into the garden. After such fertilization, the cucumbers are not fed for two weeks. Then it is allowed to apply diluted cow dung. This is done in a ratio of 2-3 kg of substance per 10 liters of water.

For cucumbers growing outdoors, these two times are enough. But, as practice shows, you need to monitor the condition of the plants in your garden. If required, you can feed it much more often.

Ash is considered another miracle cure. It is allowed to be used at any stage of cucumber development. A useful solution is prepared in the following way:

• 250 grams of wood ash;
• 10 liters of water.

To stir thoroughly. About four dressings are allowed per month.

Important! For the preparation of fertilizer, use only wood ash... In no case should you take the substance after burning the garbage. Plants will get poisoned.

Having learned in the open field, you can collect a rich and tasty harvest.

For reference

As you already know, cucumbers need to be fed on demand. And how to determine if the right moment has come or not? We will give you a hint. Lack of nutrients and nutrients can be identified by the following criteria:

1. The cucumber leaves changed color and curled.
2. The tops are starting to dry out.
3. Fruits turn yellow and change in shape.
4. The taste of cucumbers spoils.

Nowadays, many summer residents grow vegetables in special facilities. Consider how to fertilize cucumbers in a greenhouse.

Within four walls

Growing cucumbers in a greenhouse is different from growing in an open field. You need to feed vegetables several times per season. Greenhouse cucumbers do not accept:

1. A large number of organic and chemical products.
2. Lack of water. It should be applied along with fertilizers in large quantities.

The main substance in feeding greenhouse plants is nitrogen. Its deficiency affects the growth and development of cucumbers. The best remedy is bird droppings. It is worth familiarizing yourself with some of the nuances of feeding:

• fertilizing is allowed only before flowering;
• the frequency of adding substances should be every two weeks;
• if the condition of the plants is good, then you do not need to fertilize.

If you begin to notice changes in cucumbers, then the amount of fertilizer can be increased. You know how to fertilize cucumbers in a greenhouse. Now you can move on to the next question.

A bountiful harvest

To grow tasty and crunchy cucumbers, you need to care for them carefully. For this, it is important to analyze the following question: how to fertilize cucumbers for growth? Getting a crop is easy if you feed the plants:

• magnesium;
• potassium.

But feeding with nitrogen during this period should be stopped. It is best to give preference to potassium nitrate. It has a beneficial effect on the fruit. Namely:

• improves taste;
• eliminates bitterness.

Do not forget that top dressing is useful in itself. If there are a lot of them, then the soil is oversaturated with useful substances, and then fertilizers bring only harm. This affects:

• on the growth of vegetables;
• fruits fall off and yellow spots appear;
• even dark green and fleshy leaves indicate an excess of nitrogen in the soil.

In such a delicate matter, you should be careful, then you will receive a positive result from your labors. But you can collect tasty fruits only when there are many ovaries.

Abundant flowering

The key to a good harvest is a large amount of ovary. To increase and preserve it, you need to study in detail the question of how to fertilize cucumbers during flowering. For this, drugs and substances rich in nitrogen are used. To receive abundant flowering feeding is carried out in several ways:

1. Root fertilization of the plant.
2. Top dressing by spraying.
3. Drip irrigation for cucumbers.

We answered the main question about how to fertilize cucumbers. Remember that the saturation of the soil and plant roots with useful substances is included in the basic care.

Now you know how to properly grow vegetables. Invest in them work and patience - and a positive result will not keep you waiting long. We answered an important question about how to fertilize cucumbers. Having received ripe fruits, you can use them for salting, pickling and fresh consumption. Once you've figured out how to fertilize your cucumbers properly, go put your knowledge into practice!