2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
To get a decent harvest of strong zucchini, you must not only throw the seed into the soil, but also take care of the proper nutrition of the plant. After all, life develops successfully where there is a full set of chemical elements that support living organisms. Otherwise, the plant begins to malnourish, develop poorly, giving an unenviable harvest of fruits, or even leaving the vegetable grower for the winter with empty bins
Prepare the cart in winter
The Russian proverb about a sleigh and a cart is also suitable for the hassle associated with ensuring adequate nutrition for zucchini. True, preparation should, of course, begin not in winter, raking snowdrifts, but a little earlier, that is, in the fall.
Firstly, you need to choose the right landing site. It must meet several requirements:
* a garden bed for zucchini should be accessible to the sun's rays, and therefore should not be located close to trees and shrubs, or outbuildings;
* at the same time, the landing site must be protected from the wind;
* garden plots where zucchini have already been grown this year, or related plants from the Pumpkin family: cucumbers, watermelons, pumpkins, melons, will not work. After all, such predecessors managed to extract the necessary chemical elements from the soil, as well as "feed" the pests who love to profit from the plants of this family. But vegetables such as potatoes, white cabbage, green onions or onions will be happy to give way to zucchini, guaranteeing them better living conditions.
Secondlywhen all the vegetables are harvested, the ground for the zucchini should be dug to the depth of the shovel bayonet, without breaking the clods to small sizes.
ThirdlyManure introduced in the fall is carefully embedded in the soil so as not to create cozy places for sprout flies, the worst enemies of zucchini, who love to lay their eggs on wet manured lumps of earth.
Spring chores
In the spring, the soil is dug again, but already to a shallower depth (one third of the bayonet of a shovel), in order to reduce the chances of survival of pests of all stripes wintering in the ground.
After digging, arrange a bed for sowing seeds or planting seedlings. In order for the sun's rays to illuminate and warm the garden from sunrise to sunset, it is placed from east to west.
First root dressing of zucchini
The first feeding is carried out when the zucchini bushes acquire 3-4 leaves. To build up the green mass, the plant needs ammonium nitrate, potash fertilizers, and superphosphate. For a ten-liter bucket, 20, 20 and 40 grams of fertilizer are taken according to the listed list. One bucket of such a treat can feed a dozen plant bushes.
In addition to these fertilizers, the plant will benefit from an infusion of chicken manure or fresh cow dung diluted with water in a ratio of 1:20 (chicken manure) and 1:10 (manure). Two liters of this delicacy will be enough for one plant.
Second root dressing of zucchini
The second feeding is done at the moment the ovaries appear. Future fruits at this moment need potash and phosphorus fertilizers. Add 50 grams of potassium nitrate and superphosphate to a 10-liter bucket of water for irrigation, feeding up to 8 plants with this amount.
For the second feeding, the consumption rate of diluted infusion of chicken manure or manure per plant can be doubled compared to the first feeding, that is, up to 4 liters per plant.
Foliar dressing of zucchini
In addition to fertilizing, when the roots of the plant are fed with fertilizers, once every two weeks it is possible to fertilize the aerial parts of the squash with a mixture of trace elements that will strengthen the plant and make it more resistant to pests and diseases.
For this, up to 15 grams of urea is taken in a 10-liter bucket of irrigation water in a company with 5 grams of manganese sulfate, 4 grams of boric acid and 4 grams of copper sulfate.
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