2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Lemon cucumber, which is often called ogurlimon or crystal apple, is interesting for its fruits - round shape and unusual yellow color make them look like lemons! This culture bears fruit throughout the summer, and sometimes up to the onset of the very first frosts, and up to ten to twelve kilograms of harvest can be easily harvested from a single bush! At the same time, ogurlimon is grown with equal success both in greenhouse conditions and in open ground! Already wanted to try to grow? That's right - it's really worth it
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Lemon cucumber, which has absorbed all the most valuable qualities of cucumbers, is very rich in crystal clear moisture - it is for this property that it is called a crystal apple! And when its fruits are fully ripe, they become like bright lemons, but this is only outwardly, since their taste is very far from the taste of well-known lemons!
The atypical appearance has led to the fact that in our latitudes the lemon-cucumber has gained fame as an outlandish exotic plant, nevertheless, some summer residents have already settled this “exotic” quite safely in their plots! By the way, the lemon-cucumber is characterized by very fast growth rates and the ability to fill the entire area in the shortest possible time, and this fact also cannot be discounted!
Lemon cucumber is endowed with rather thick stems, the length of which often reaches five meters, and very large spectacular leaves. This plant usually begins to bloom somewhere in a month and a half after planting, and the first harvests can be harvested already in the middle of summer!
The fruits of an unusual culture are characterized by rounded shapes and medium size, and inside them is the most delicate pulp, densely covered with many translucent seeds. By the way, the color of ogurlimons gradually changes as they ripen: unripe "cucumbers" can boast of a soft green color and the presence of a light and soft cannon (peaches are covered with about the same downy fluff), then, after some time, they turn white, and only closer by the very end of ripening, they acquire a rich lemon-yellow color.
How to grow?
Most often, ogurlimon is grown through seedlings. Seeds for seedlings are sown in early spring, while it is important to take into account that this plant simply adores heat and moisture. If you want to sow seeds directly into open ground, then this is usually done at the very end of spring - the seeds are buried in the soil by about two centimeters, making sure that gaps of at least about one meter are maintained between the bushes (this is necessary to avoid an extremely undesirable decrease yield, since this plant will grow very actively in the territory allocated to it). And as soon as the first lashes grow, they are immediately stretched over the soil surface and prudently laid straw under them.
It is advisable to plant ogurlimon in a well protected area from drafts and in well-lit areas. As for the soils, despite the fact that this culture prefers non-acidic and fairly light soils, it takes root without much difficulty on any other soils. Ideally, a lemon cucumber is planted after potatoes, legumes, cabbage, tomato or onion, but after squash with squash or pumpkin with cucumbers, it is not recommended to plant it - these crops have common diseases and pests!
Watering ogurlimon should be moderate, however, during the flowering period, the amount of watering is somewhat increased. And so that moisture does not evaporate too quickly, it is recommended to mulch the soil. The lemon cucumber will not refuse good fertilizers, so from time to time (with intervals of about a week and a half) it must be pampered with high-quality dressings.
A lemon-cucumber growing in open ground is always pollinated by wind and insects, but if it grows in a greenhouse, you will have to help it - the pollen from male flowers to female flowers is transferred with a brush!
Often, ogurlimon is grown as an ornamental plant - in this case, it is best to plant it along the fences in order to enable it to trudge right along these fences.
Would you like to try growing such an unusual vegetable?
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