2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Let's talk about the "miniature" tricks of high yields of such crops loved by all gardeners as cucumbers and garden strawberries
Cucumber tricks. How do you get the sweetness of the fruit?
In fact, knowing some tricks, sometimes it is not necessary to achieve the sweetness of garden cucumbers with long efforts. The breeders have already done everything for us. There are varieties and hybrids of cucumbers that are never bitter. You can find out about these varieties from the seed sellers in the store. For example, the Rodnichok seeds are such a variety of cucumbers.
Although there is also such a trick as to make sweet those varieties of cucumbers that you already have on hand. They must be planted in the ground by the middle of June and only with seeds that have hatched. And you will need to water the growing shoots of cucumbers more often. Under no circumstances should they be allowed in the heat, so that they remain without moisture.
Cucumber tricks. How to improve your appearance?
If the cucumbers grow in an irregular shape, then you can fix everything by properly feeding the soil where the cucumbers grow. With cucumbers, which, while ripening, become like a pear, the soil under them is fertilized with potassium, that is, ash.
If the cucumbers are narrowed on one side, resembling carrots in shape, then the soil under them must be watered with a mullein diluted with water at the rate of 1 part mullein per 10 parts of water. Chicken droppings can be used in place of mullein. Only for one part of it you need to take 25 parts of water.
Cucumber tricks. How to increase the yield?
In order for the cucumber crop to be large, it is necessary to attract toiling bees to the cucumber flowers for pollination. To do this, sprinkle the beds with cucumbers with a sugar solution (weak!), You can sow honey plants next to the cucumbers, which bees love.
And one more subtlety for increasing the yield of "green". Reduce watering before flowering so that there are more ovaries on the plants.
Strawberry tricks. Subtleties of increasing yields
The first trick. Place black plastic between the rows of garden strawberries. It prevents the emergence of weeds, pulling beneficial elements for strawberries from the soil and moisture. Before laying it, loosen the ground under it slightly. Remove the film only at the end of summer. This simple technique doubles the yield of strawberries.
The second trick. Cut off excess leaves on the plant so that its berries gain mass and their attractive color, 10 days before they ripen. Remove literally half of the leaves from the bush during this period. And try to remove those leaves that cover the berry from the sun's rays, allowing it to ripen and become more colored sooner.
The third trick. Water your garden strawberries throughout the summer, not just when the berries are ripe on them. This method does not give a big chance of getting a good harvest next year. The fact is that the buds of strawberry flowers are laid just after its release of the fruit. If the strawberries do not receive enough moisture during this period, they will lay few buds. Water the strawberries until the end of summer at least once every two weeks, or even more often.
The fourth trick. Plant different varieties of strawberries on the same square of the plot. Several varieties on the same beds give the best harvest.
The fifth trick. The yield of garden strawberries is influenced not only by proper care for it and timely feeding, but also by the selected variety of berries. For example, such Russian strawberry varieties as "Rusich", "Divnaya", "Alpha" have proven themselves well. When planting these varieties of strawberries, you can hope to collect up to 40 berries from each bush per season.
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Finally, the main rule of keeping garden strawberries in the country. You cannot grow its bushes for more than three years in one place. In the fourth year, even the seemingly still very much nothing-looking strawberry will begin, as they say, to oppress itself, to get sick.
In the fourth year of being in the same place, the strawberries will become small and there will be very few berries on the bushes. Therefore, for every third or fourth year, lay new beds with light nutritious soil under the garden strawberries adored by everyone.
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