How to grow cucumbers in summer? How long does cucumber seed need to soak and how to apply fertilizer?

Planting summer fruits and vegetables, there is one kind of beginners will be successful, do not need to take up a lot of space, no matter how bright windowsill can be successfully planted, that is cucumbers, let's learn about cucumber planting methods!

To grow cucumbers, you must buy seeds, because the cucumbers bought in the market are all immature fruits, so the seeds inside are not mature and cannot germinate and grow. There are several kinds of cucumbers, ordinary slippery cucumbers, spiny cucumbers, or mini Persian cucumbers. It is best to choose mini varieties when growing at home. In addition to the small size of the plant, the most important thing is that cucumbers can grow without spreading pollen. Because all cucurbitaceae melons, flowers are divided into male and female, male flowers are responsible for producing pollen, female flowers in the receptacle already has a mini melon, very easy to distinguish. Larger cucumber varieties need insects or hands to spread pollen, but mini varieties can bear fruit on their own.

The bought seeds are soaked for four to five hours, then planted in a nursery pot, and will germinate within a week. If you want to have the best harvest, you can't be too crowded. A 20-centimeter flowerpot can only plant one tree. Cucumbers are climbing vines and should be supported to grow upward. When you grow to one meter tall, you can pick the heart to promote the branches, so that you can produce more cucumbers.

Organic fertilizer can be applied every two weeks. The root system of cucumber is very shallow. Do not touch the root to avoid burns. If the root is exposed upward, it can be gently covered with soil as protection. Cucumbers need a lot of water, especially when there is direct sunlight, it is best to be watered sooner or later, but not at noon, when the sun is very strong in summer, if the temperature is too high, the water will evaporate directly, and the steam will burn the fragile roots.

If you grow healthily, basically every cucumber can produce one to three cucumbers every week. If there are several, you basically don't have to buy cucumbers this summer, you can also have fresh organic cucumbers to eat!