What you can plant cucumbers with in a greenhouse depends on the needs and tastes of the plants. Cucumber loves a warm and humid atmosphere, frequent watering, and does not tolerate drafts. Therefore, his neighbors in the transparent “house” should also be heat-loving.
The best candidates for neighbors
Cucumbers are grown in a compost or manure bed because they love nitrogen fertilizers. Therefore, all representatives of legumes will be wonderful companions for green crops:
- peas;
- lentils;
- beans;
- soy;
- beans.
Leguminous crops have nodules on their roots with specific bacteria that saturate the soil with nitrogen, making it healthier.
The best neighbor for a green vegetable is black Eyed Peas, which not only actively “shares” nitrogen, but also loosens the soil.
It is recommended to plant legumes between cucumbers as a seal. This will help to use the area rationally, enrich the soil, and increase the yield of cucumbers due to nitrogenous fertilizing.
Corn has a beneficial effect on the growth and productivity of cucumbers: it creates around itself the microclimate necessary for the normal growth of the vegetable.
And if you use tall varieties of grain crops as a compactor, planting them between the beds, then you can wrap cucumber wattles around strong stalks of corn, thereby replacing trellises.It is good to use as such a support for shoots. sunflower, which will not harm the vegetable in any way.
To increase the yield of the crispy vegetable, you can sow calendula around the beds. The flower will attract pollinating insects with its scent.
If dill is planted next to a vegetable crop, then, on the contrary, it will repel pests and parasites with its pungent odor.
It is recommended to plant sweet peppers in the same greenhouse along with cucumbers. This culture is also heat- and moisture-loving.
You just need to make sure that the taller climbing vegetable does not block the sunlight from the pepper. Various other crops tolerate the conditions created for cucumber remarkably well:
- watermelon;
- melon;
- early beets;
- eggplant;
- zucchini;
- Chinese cabbage;
- mustard;
- leaf turnip.
Cucumber goes well with white cabbage, kohlrabi, onions, lettuce, beets. Neutral towards cucumber next door such garden plants: strawberries, leeks, carrots, parsnips, celery, garlic, spinach, grapes. Also, cucumber is indifferent to all representatives of cruciferous vegetables (except radishes and radishes).
Undesirable neighborhood
It is strongly not recommended to plant cucumbers in the same greenhouse with tomatoes.
Green vegetables like stuffy, warm and humid environments and require frequent watering and little fertilizer. Tomatoes, on the contrary, need frequent ventilation and abundant feeding with fertilizers.
But if you still had to plant a climbing vegetable next to a golden apple, then it is better to cover the cucumber beds with a special cloth during ventilation, protecting them from drafts. Tomatoes should be planted closer to the window or door.
Oddly enough, potatoes inhibit the growth of cucumbers, so it is also better to plant them somewhere else. The following fragrant herbs make good company for the greengrocer:
- basil;
- cilantro;
- oregano;
- mint;
- hyssop;
- thyme;
- rosemary.
The fact is that the strong pungent smell of greenery reduces the yield of the vegetable. Cucumbers don’t do well even next to radishes. There is a possibility that proximity to radishes can also reduce cucumber yields.
To get a high yield of cucumbers in a greenhouse, you need to wisely select its neighbors. Such plants should have similar growing conditions and maintenance requirements.
