How to properly plant cucumbers in open ground with seeds: video

Content

1 Where and when is the best time to plant cucumbers?
2 Preparing for landing
- 2.1 Preparing the bed
- 2.2 Preparing the seeds
3 Planting cucumbers
4 Caring for planted cucumbers

Cucumbers are a crop that has long become one of the most popular in our country. Most gardeners prefer cucumbers, since cucumbers ripen early and bear fruit for a long time, and their cultivation does not require special care and does not force you to spend all your time in the garden. Each summer resident has his own way of growing and caring for cucumbers. Many people first grow cucumber seedlings and then transfer them to open ground, but not everyone knows that in most areas plant cucumbers You can plant seeds directly into open ground and this method is no less productive than seedlings. We will talk about this in the article.

Where and when is the best time to plant cucumbers?

Cucumber is a heat-loving crop, so seeds are planted only when the ground is warmed to 15 - 18 degrees. In most regions of Russia, this time falls in the middle - end May.

In order to more accurately determine when to sow cucumber seeds and its limits, you can calculate the date. Cucumbers ripen within 45 days, that is, if sowing took place on May 25, then the first harvest of cucumbers will be received on July 10. From this we can conclude that cucumbers can be planted in open ground before the beginning of July, otherwise they will not have time to ripen and will freeze.

Cucumbers should be planted in those beds that are heated most by the sun, and even better if there are trellises near them so that large seedlings can rise. Do not sow seeds in windy weather.

It is best to sow cucumbers in the place where tomatoes, cabbage or other types of cabbage used to grow.

Attention! In those places where pumpkins were grown or cucumbers had to be planted last year, the harvest will be insignificant or there will be no harvest at all.

Preparing for landing

In order for cucumbers planted with seeds in open ground to produce high productivity, it is necessary to prepare the beds and the required number of seeds for sowing.

Preparing the bed

In order to get a good harvest of cucumbers in the summer, it is best to sow the seeds in a bed prepared in the fall. Where the cultivation will take place you need:

Dig up;
If the soil is highly acidic, dolomite flour, slaked lime, ash or special preparations are added;
Next, you need to add organic fertilizers to the soil. This is manure, peat, humus or compost. They are needed in sufficient quantity, that is, up to kg per 1 square meter;
Potassium sulfate is added in the amount of 60 grams per 10 square meters, this is very important for cucumbers;
In the spring, this bed is raised so that it is not flat, and manure and mineral fertilizers are again added to it. Warming up of the soil can be enhanced by covering the top of the soil with a film.

Important! As soon as the bed begins to float, you can sow cucumbers.

If the soil is not prepared in the fall, then in the spring you can dig a trench about 80 cm deep and lay coniferous spruce branches or branches of garden trees on the bottom. The top is covered with compost and sawdust.The next layer is manure or humus. This entire mixture is covered with loose soil no more than 25 cm thick. You can plant seeds in such a bed right away.

Preparing the seeds

First you need to select the seeds in accordance with the purposes for which they will be used. Growing cucumbers from medium- and long-term seeds is perfect for pickling for the winter, but sowing early-ripening ones will delight you with the excellent taste of cucumbers in salads.

Before you start preparing seeds, you need to identify those that have good germination. To do this, dilute a teaspoon of salt in 1 glass of warm water and pour the seeds into the liquid. Those that immediately float up need to be removed and thrown away, since they most likely will not rise, but those that sank to the bottom can be prepared for planting.

If the seeds are of the domestic type, that is, they were grown and collected by the gardener himself, and not bought in a store, then before sowing them, they need to be disinfected. It is carried out this way:

The seeds are soaked for half an hour in a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
Wash with water.
Wrap in a damp cloth and place in the refrigerator for two days to harden.

Purchased seeds do not need to be processed, since they already undergo all these procedures during production.

The process of preparing seeds is clearly shown in the video:

Planting cucumbers

Immediately before the cucumbers are planted, the bed is spilled with boiling water and covered with film, which increases the proliferation of bacteria, which will warm the soil in the process of their vital activity until the temperature stabilizes. You can wait 2-3 days after this procedure, but you can sow the seeds immediately after watering in warm soil.

You can plant cucumbers in holes or in a row. The rows are made 70-90 cm long. The recesses are dug 4 cm in length and at a distance of about 20 cm from each other if the cucumbers are grown in open soil. You need to sow two to four seeds per hole. If both seeds subsequently come out, you will need to thin them out.

Important! While the seed sprouts have not appeared or they are still weak, the bed is covered with film at night to prevent them from freezing.

In order for cucumbers to grow strong and healthy and not die at the stage of the appearance of the first shoots, you need to:

Prevent the formation of crust on the ground;
Remove weeds in a timely manner and with special care;
Tie up cucumbers immediately, without waiting until they become too long;
After watering the cucumbers, loosen the beds;
Cultivation should be accompanied by fertilizing the plant once every 10 days.

Caring for planted cucumbers

Caring for cucumbers is not difficult; the procedure includes constant compliance with certain conditions:

Thinning. The thinning process is carried out twice during the entire period of cultivation, starting from the appearance of one leaf on the cucumber stem (partial thinning), the final thinning is done when 3–4 leaves have already been formed. The technology for removing excess sprouts is as follows: you just need to break them off, and not uproot them. This way, you can keep the root system in order without damaging it.
Topping. It is necessary in order to direct the life sap of the plant to the formation of lateral female ovaries.
Easy hilling, which will not allow moisture to accumulate in the roots of cucumbers. This point will help cucumbers form an additional root system, which will significantly increase productivity in the future.
Spraying It is produced with the aim of attracting insects to cucumbers, which will produce pollination. To do this, the plant is sprayed with a solution of water with honey or sugar. The recipe is as follows: for 1 liter of hot water, take 100 grams of sugar and 2 grams of boric acid.
Loosening the soil. It is produced together with the cultivation and thinning of cucumbers. You need to act very carefully so as not to damage the roots of the plant.
Weeding. It is carried out no more than 5 times in rows and nests, and between rows of cucumbers no more than 4 times.
Mulching – produced using sawdust or straw so that the soil is saturated with oxygen, does not dry out, and the soil warms up evenly.
Garter. It is carried out as the cucumber stem grows towards the pegs.
Temperature. As mentioned earlier, cucumbers are heat-loving plants. In open ground, cultivation is carried out at an air temperature that ranges from 22 to 28 degrees during the day, and at night does not fall below 12 degrees. Cucumbers should not be allowed to freeze or, conversely, overheat. In both cases, they stop developing and die.
Daily watering cucumbers are carried out with warm water.

How to plant cucumber seeds directly into the ground is shown in the following video:

Many gardeners grow cucumbers this way, as seedlings. This is the most common method and is considered to be more productive than sowing seeds. But planting cucumber seeds in open ground gives an equally pleasant amount of harvest. The main thing is that you need to comply with all the requirements and prepare both the seeds themselves and the soil for them. We must not forget that cucumbers are heat-loving, so they are planted at a certain time and place.Everyday simple care will give high yields, which will please any summer resident who has tried to plant cucumbers with seeds in the ground.