All about how to care for cucumbers in a greenhouse

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-07 20:55

Today we will devote our conversation to how to care for cucumbers in a greenhouse. At the same time, we will talk about the rules for caring for both seedlings and an adult plant in protected ground.

Seedling care

Before we talk about how to care for cucumbers in a greenhouse, we will talk about seedlings. After all, he althy and strong seedlings are the key to a good harvest, so at this stage it is especially important to follow the recommended watering regime and temperature, as well as feed the plants in a timely manner.

Events for the care of seedlings of cucumbers in the greenhouse:

• loosen the soil regularly, while not damaging the fragile plant, especially the root (this is done so that the water does not stagnate);
• ventilate the greenhouse every day after seven in the morning, beware of sudden changes in temperature, use thermometers both indoors and out;
• water the seedlings sparingly (once every five days is enough) and only with warm water;
• feed the plant with mineral and organic fertilizers (it is enough to fertilize seedlings once or twice after planting in a permanent place).

Caring for an adult plant

A plant is considered mature when the first flowers appear. At this stage, it is also very important to know how to properly care for cucumbers. In general, all care activities consist mainly of watering and top dressing, as well as loosening, pinching and weeding.

So how to care for greenhouse cucumbers? Here you need to know some tricks that we will share with you:

1. On an adult plant that has already begun to bear fruit, you need to remove yellowed leaves and shoots that have already fruited. We won't need them anymore. But do not touch the juicy green leaves - they give nutrients to new fruits.

2. Not only seedlings, but also an adult plant should be watered with warm water. In a greenhouse, it is enough to do this two to three times a week.

   

3. Combine watering with top dressing with liquid complex fertilizers. Do this at least once a week, because in the greenhouse your cucumbers still do not receive all the necessary elements in full.
4. If the plant is weakened, then spray the leaves from below with urea. It is the lower part, since there is the greatest penetration of nutrients.
5. In the first month after planting, loosen the soil, thenjust pierce the ground with a pitchfork and sprinkle around with fresh earth.

6. Speaking about how to care for cucumbers in a greenhouse, you should know one trick: cucumbers will not be bitter if you save them from stress (sudden temperature changes, unbalanced nutrition, dry soil).
7. If you don't want to pick crooked fruits or in the form of pears, then feed vegetables with potash and nitrogen fertilizers - and then you will get beautiful cucumbers.
8. Do not overgrow fruits, yellow and large ones lead to a decrease in yield. Therefore, collect cucumbers at least every other day, or every day.

Now you know how to care for cucumbers in the greenhouse. We hope that our tips turned out to be useful, and by following them, you will definitely get a rich harvest of this juicy and he althy plant.