In the spring, you want to get homemade delicious crispy cucumbers as early as possible on its plot. Landing in the soil does not allow to get a harvest so early, as the land is still cold, did not warm up, and the temperature of the air is too low. The cultivation of cucumbers in the barrel on Ganichkin became popular, because the cucumbers from the barrel can be eaten already in May. In our article, consider how to plant cucumbers in a barrel and care for them.
Preparing a barrel for cucumbers
Many on the site have old holey metal barrels, which are no longer possible to use for water. Such barrels are perfect for growing cucumbers in a barrel. The barrel can be without the bottom, or with numerous holes at the bottom and side walls. Holes are needed to access the oxygen to organic waste. The barrel is suitable and plastic, and wooden.
Fill the tank for cucumbers in advance, starting in autumn, or at least since February with favorable weather conditions. The contents of the barrel is conditionally divided into 3 parts:
- The first lower layer is about a third of the barrels, small branches are used for the contents of this layer, such as trimming grapes, apples, plums. The twigs are finely cut by the secateur and fall asleep them in the barrel. There also add foliage from trees and shrubs. This lower layer will serve as drainage in our landing capacity.
- The second layer is also about a third of a barrel for cucumbers. This part is filled with manure, weeds, any vegetable residues from a plot, household waste, such as cleaning potatoes, onions and other vegetables. An organic agent in the process of overheating forms a nutrient medium for growing cucumbers. You can speed up the wasteing process using special preparations, such as Baikal EM. It will help faster recycle organic waste. For this, 100 ml of the drug is breed 10 liters of water outlook, and the contents of the barrel water. If you cover the barrel of the film, the process will accelerate.
- The upper third layer consists of fertile soil, it is possible to use the compost compost for this layer for this layer. The last 10 cm of this layer is the ground, it will be enough to plant cucumbers in the barrel. Well, if there will be rainworms in the barrel, they benefit, processing organic waste into humus. When overloading the soil mixture is gradually mounted, which is why it is recommended to prepare a barrel in advance. The barrel is filled so that the upper layer of the Earth reached the edge of the barrel about 20 cm. Next will be clear why this is done.
Landing cucumbers in barrel
When the air temperature reaches + 15-18 0C, it comes to landing seeds in a barrel. In one barrel, it is recommended to grow no more than 4-5 plants of cucumbers. For an early landing, seeds of early cucumber hybrids are suitable.
During the day, the barrel is well watering, perhaps, while the contents will fall, then it will be necessary to shine the ground to the desired level. For planting cooking:
- seeds
- film
- scissors,
- twine or gum,
- humus.
To plant cucumbers in a barrel, in the ground form 4 small recesses, in each deepening there are one cucumber seed. The deepening falls asleep by humus, the soil is slightly condensed. On the day of planting the land do not watered. The barrel is covered with a film and tightly tied with twine. It is very convenient to use an elastic band instead of twine, the usual linen is suitable. It does not need to be unleashed every time and tie, if necessary, remove the film. Film covering will create a greenhouse effect, and the seeds will warm up faster. Temperature under the film should not fall below 10 0WITH.
If you want, put in the barrel more seeds, then the extra plants gently transfer or delete. So you will get seedlings of cucumbers in the barrel.
As the soil drying is drying, the barrel is watered, for watering, use warm water, for example, heated in the sun. Water from the watering can with the scatterer.
Care for cucumbers in barrel
When growing cucumbers, the plant is formed, watered, tied up, fertile. The land in a barrel is mounted with leaves, grass, it will save more moisture in the ground.
Formation of cucumbers in barrel
Young plants form in one stem, for this, the steps are pouring after 2-3 leaves. If this is not done, they take a lot of strength from the plant, and then less harvest is tied on it, it develops weaker. In the sinuses of the leaves remove barely formed stepsing. When the plant grow up and strengthened, the steps will not interfere with it, since the fertile nutrient soil has been prepared in the barrel, which allows to grow strong plants. The longest steps in water and hide from direct sunlight. It happens that such steps will be launched roots, and then they are used as seedlings for a bed.
Watering cucumbers in barrel
Cucumbers love warmth and moisture. Watering the cucumbers in the barrel is made much more often than in the ground, they watered abundantly, excessive water will count through the holes in the barrel. An overloading organizing will warm up our seedlings from below, the sun will provide external heat. But for watering, it is necessary to follow, since the soil in the barrel dries very quickly. Recommended irrigation frequency - every 2 days.
If there is no possibility to water so often, take care of watering automation. For this, there are several small holes in the bottom of the plastic bottle, and put a filled bottle with water near the plant. Water gradually will flow and moisturize the ground. The greater the bottle capacity, the longer the plant will be provided with moisture. Special adaptations for the arrangement of such watering are sold.
Garter of cucumbers in barrel
As the plants grow, the supports are installed. It can be vertical wooden racks with a strained wire at the top or flexible arc around the perimeter of the barrel of girlfriend. Such supports will enable the shelter, a kind of slag, as nights can be cold. The design, as before, in cool days are covered with a film and tied up, disclosed on warm days. Weeds are removed.
In order for the tops of the wooden supports did not tear the film, they are wrapped with cardboard or cloth.
When cucumbers become high enough, they are tied up to the supports that the shelter helped before it. The plant first rises to the support, and only then beautifully descends along the walls of the barrel. With this method of growing stems are not injured about the edge of the barrel when they are loaded with harvest.
To collect cucumbers you need to collect on time, then new fruits will be formed faster. Harvesting is much easier than collecting from beds, no need to lean. Cucumbers grown in barrel, clean and smooth, as they do not touch the Earth with development. Plants are not as susceptible to diseases and pests, and the crop can be obtained earlier for 2-3 weeks than in the soil.
Cucumbers feeding in barrel
For feeding plants, Gumistar can be used - liquid biohumus. The drug 1:30 is divorced, one plant uses 100-200 ml of solution. A plant that receives a sufficient amount of nutrients is developing faster, resistant to diseases, gives a good harvest.
The technology of planting cucumbers in a barrel was widely distributed and popularity due to the possibility in a small area to grow early cucumbers without greenhouses. Places such a "garden" on the plot takes a little, care for plants is easy. The harvest can be raised in place, absolutely for this is not intended, for example, on an asphalt area of \u200b\u200bthe courtyard. In the barrel, you can grow not only cucumbers, and other vegetable crops, such as tomatoes, peppers, greens.
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