An important point in fertilizing vegetable crops is the use of chicken manure for cucumbers in a greenhouse as a top dressing. This is a great way to activate biological processes in the soil and provide plants with valuable substances.
Natural fast acting remedy
It is necessary to feed cucumbers growing in a greenhouse several times during the entire growing season. In this case, it is necessary to be extremely careful and careful not to overfeed the plants and not disrupt their growth. Cucumbers do not like a large amount of chemical and organic dressings. You need to make them in small doses and in strictly defined terms.
Among the variety of types of bird droppings used in greenhouses, chicken manure is in the first place. Even despite the fact that the litter has a number of disadvantages (high toxicity, unpleasant odor, inability to use it fresh), it can be called a real storehouse of nutrients so necessary for the normal growth of plants. It contains a large amount of potassium, magnesium, nitrogen. And in terms of the amount of phosphorus, manure is 3 times higher than any other type of manure.
Thanks to its use, vegetable growers manage to get large yields of all grown crops.
It is also very important that useful substances from the litter are released gradually, slowly absorbed into the soil and maintaining their “influence” on it for 2-3 years. This effect cannot be achieved with any type of fertilizer.
When growing cucumbers, the first application of top dressing is carried out before flowering plants at the stage of 2-3 leaves. The next top dressing can be carried out no earlier than 14 days later. It is in its composition that there should be chicken droppings, which will spur the growth of the plant, activate the formation of ovaries. Properly prepared mixture will reduce the number of empty flowers to a minimum.
When fresh, it is used to make a liquid mixture at the rate of 1 part of manure (1 kg) per 20 liters of water. The resulting solution is aged for 10 days and is used for row spacing. Do not pour this solution under the roots. Top dressing is applied only after abundant watering. During work, care must be taken so that the mixture does not fall on the leaves of cucumbers. If this still happened, then it must be washed off.
One of the options for preparing a good top dressing is the preparation of compost. In addition to litter, you will need peat, straw or sawdust. The ingredients are layered. Each layer should not be higher than 20-30 cm. To speed up the process of preparing the compost, the resulting slide can be covered with plastic wrap. This will ensure an increase in temperature and eliminate unpleasant odors.
This method makes it possible to prepare high-quality material for fertilizing cucumbers and other plants in greenhouses.
An infusion of rotted chicken manure is very popular with vegetable growers, as it gives quick results. It’s easy to prepare. The rotted manure is filled with water, mixed and left for 2-3 days. The mixture that will be used to water the cucumbers should have the color of weak tea. If the solution turned out to be more saturated, then you just need to dilute it with water.
industrial product
If it is not possible to get a fresh waste product of chickens, then you can use a ready-made fraction to feed cucumbers, which is easy to find in specialized outlets. This is a natural chicken manure, dried in a hot way while retaining all its beneficial properties. Most often it is presented in granular form, which facilitates transportation and use.
Unlike fresh, this product contains no harmful microorganisms, weed seeds and parasite larvae. It has an unchanged composition. Industrially treated chicken manure can be used not only for feeding adult plants, but also for soaking their seeds.
The granules are placed in a container and filled to the top with water. The mixture is left to ferment for 14 days. Before use, the resulting concentrated solution is diluted in a ratio of 1:20.
It should be borne in mind that chicken manure in its pure form is not able to fully provide cucumbers with nutrients. To achieve good results, a competent combination of mineral and natural components in the mixture used to fertilize plants in the greenhouse is necessary.
