Reason 3. Excessive or insufficient lighting Cucumbers like bright, but scattered light, and on direct sunlight, burning them in hot summer weather, react with increased production of cucurbitacin. Especially bitter cucumbers are obtained, which are illuminated by the sun directly. Therefore, often on the same Bush can be found different […]
Why are Cucumbers Bitter? And they Have 5 Reasons. (Part 1)
Cucumber is a crop. But even a good return does not always bring joy to gardeners: gorgeous – looking cucumbers sometimes taste very bitter. The culprit of cucumber bitterness — cucurbitacin – a natural compound for this culture, the concentration of which in the fruits (primarily the skin) varies depending […]
Salad Cucumber Soltis F1: Features of Growing a Long Fruit Hybrid
Weather for gardener-vegetable grower — a decisive factor in obtaining a good harvest. Of course, if you have an understanding of farming, some flair and skill. Today we will talk about cucumbers. Wonderful culture: easy to grow, the fruits are tasty and healthy. Good and in salad, and salted or […]
The Use of Foliage of Tomatoes in the Home Garden
Replenishing seed stocks in anticipation of the upcoming spring harvest season, the cottagers first stops next to “tomato” the counter. The red, orange, yellow, green and striped “fat-bellied”, painted on the packaging, and the hand inadvertently puts in a basket a hefty armful of bags of seeds. Increases mental confusion […]
The Intricacies of Determinate Tomatoes in Open Ground
It was the turn to learn about the determinants of hybrids and features of their cultivation. Usually the first flower brush such hybrids 7-9 is formed over the sheet, sometimes earlier, follow-up brushes — 1-2 leaves. In the first wave of growth in determinant varieties and hybrids appears 4-7 inflorescences. […]
How to Make Moving Peppers From Home to Greenhouse Comfortable
Nightshade cultures have a long and fruitful life. All the most famous representatives of this family — tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, physalis, nightshade, Datura — perennial. But, unfortunately, in the climatic zones of our country, even when grown in greenhouses and shelters under the arches, these plants can maintain good yield, […]
Grow Cucumbers in the Greenhouse: the Main Agricultural Techniques (Part 2)
The advice of the agronomist 1. Tie up cucumbers correctly! Growing cucumber in a greenhouse is a guarantee of early harvest. Planting in a greenhouse takes place at an earlier date than in the open ground. In addition, for growing in the greenhouse, use parthenocarpic hybrids of cucumber fruit type […]
Grow Cucumbers in the Greenhouse: the Main Agricultural Techniques (Part 1)
Varieties and hybrids of cucumbers are divided into grown in the open and protected ground. First, as a rule, distinguished by the relative maturity and friendly crop returns, grow vrastil and require pelophilini (although there are hybrids tend to parthenocarpy or partial parthenocarpy). Cucumbers for protected soil are adapted to […]