How to build a shelf when growing cucumbers

The vines and branches of cucumbers are long and soft, and they will climb freely if they are not guided, so we need to build a support for cucumbers when we grow cucumbers. So, how to build a shelf for growing cucumbers?

First, how to build a shelf for growing cucumbers

1. If cucumbers are planted in the ground, cucumbers start to put up shelves when they smoke vines. Prepare the bamboo pole and thick line, set up the herringbone frame side by side, fix the upper end of the bamboo pole with thick line, insert the lower end into the soil, make several in succession, and put a long bamboo pole in the middle to fix all the shelves.

2. Cucumbers planted in flowerpots have guardrails to guide cucumber vines to climb to the guardrail; without guardrails, they build shelves with slender bamboo poles or sticks. You can insert a circle around the periphery of the flowerpot and fix it with strips of cloth, or you can use several bamboo poles to build a herringbone or triangular frame next to the cucumber seedlings, and then fix it with strips of cloth.

Second, the advantages of planting cucumbers on shelves

Cucumber vines are soft and long. After setting up the bracket, the cucumber vine will extend to the space along the bamboo pole, which reduces the shielding between the leaves, ventilates and transparently, and reduces the occurrence of the disease.

Third, the method of planting cucumber in flowerpot

1. Prepare several large flowerpots and plant soil in the vegetable garden. It is better to sow in April.

2. Bury the prepared cucumber seeds directly into the basin soil, then pour water thoroughly and put them on the balcony. If the soil is kept moist, cucumbers will sprout in a week or so.

3. When cucumber seedlings have 5-6 true leaves, N, P and K fertilizers should be properly applied to promote their growth and development.

4. when cucumbers grow seedlings, you can build shelves, and tie them to the bracket with cloth strips when the vines are long. It will climb along the bracket.

5. If there is no insect pollination, you can use cotton swabs in the center of female and male flowers to achieve pollination effect.

6. If the cucumbers are harvested in time after they grow out, you can leave a few cucumbers to age naturally and make seeds.

Cucumber shelf is relatively simple, hope to help friends in need, interested friends can also plant some cucumbers on the balcony.