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Planting cucumbers in a greenhouse with seeds allows you to get an early harvest of fruits. Most often, this growing option is used by people who seek to breed the maximum number of these rather whimsical vegetables on a small plot of land. Cucumbers are extremely capricious and hard to survive drought and the scorching sun, so it is necessary to create optimal conditions for them.
It is worth noting that often even from avid gardeners you can hear that seiyu-seiyu, and planting seeds does not give a good effect even with greenhouse cultivation of cucumbers. In this case, most likely, the problem lies in the violation of the technology for preparing the greenhouse for further use, as well as planting seeds in the ground. If you wish, you can avoid all the mistakes of arranging planting material in a greenhouse in order to get a high-quality crop of cucumbers grown on your site. Sowing cucumbers in a greenhouse with seeds has many subtleties.
Preparing the soil for planting cucumber seeds
In order to get a high-quality crop when planting cucumbers with seeds directly into the greenhouse, it is necessary to take the preparation of the soil mixture very responsibly for the further cultivation of these whimsical vegetables. The best option here is a mixture of soddy soil and humus with sawdust, and the latter should not be fresh, they need to lie before that for at least 2 years. It is better to start preparing the soil and the entire greenhouse in early spring. Before planting cucumbers, the structure should be treated with special disinfectants.
The soil that is already present in the greenhouse and will be used to prepare an earthen mixture for sowing cucumber seeds also needs to be treated with special preparations, since in the future a favorable environment for pathogenic fungi and microbes will be created in the greenhouse. At the same time, if there is no soddy soil on the site or if the greenhouse was previously often used to grow other vegetables, you can prepare a prefabricated substrate, which should include:
- ½ peat;
- ¼ humus;
- ¼ field soil.
You can also add a small amount of sawdust to this mixture. Fertilizers must be added to the soil substrate, which create an ideal nutrient medium for plants. 1 m²approximately 15 g of potassium sulfate, 3 g of saltpeter and 25 g of superphosphate should be added. After thoroughly mixing all the elements of the soil substrate, it is necessary to form even rows from it in the greenhouse. The depth of the beds for cucumbers in the greenhouse should be at least 25 cm, and the width should be about 1 m. In regions where warm weather sets in in late spring, it is best to equip such beds on manure or compost.
Processing cucumber seeds for planting in a greenhouse
In order to get a high-quality crop of cucumbers, first of all, it is necessary to choose the right seeds for planting in a greenhouse. It is best to grow hybrid varieties marked with an F1 stroke.
Sowing cucumbers in a greenhouse with seeds can be done only after their certain preparation has been carried out. Planting material should be checked for quality in advance. The easiest way involves the use of saline.
To prepare the liquid, place approximately 10 g of salt in 1 glass of warm water. Next, mix the salt thoroughly and pour the seeds into the solution. Those of them that have surfaced are not suitable for landing. The selected planting material must then be rinsed with strong water for several minutes to remove salt residues. After this procedure, the seeds must be disinfected in a solution of potassium permanganate for about 20-30 minutes.
Then the seeds are placed for germination. To do this, it is necessary to lay out well-soaked gauze, folded in several layers, on a shallow plate. You will need to place the planting material on 1 end of the gauze and cover it with the other. After how many days the sprouts will hatch, it’s easy to figure it out, it will be seen in a few days. After germination, cucumber seeds can be planted in a greenhouse.
Technology for planting cucumber seeds in a greenhouse
Only by figuring out how to plant cucumbers correctly, you can get a quality crop. Germinated seeds should be placed in a greenhouse, the air temperature in which should be above + 13 ° C during the day. Cucumbers should be sown in loose soil to a depth of about 2 cm. The distance between individual plants will be at least 30 cm, and between rows – more than 75 cm. It is not worth thickening the planting of cucumbers.
Seeds should be planted with the hatched side up.
This will ensure they grow faster. Next, you need to carefully water the beds. Separately, it should be noted that it is best to plant cucumber seeds in a greenhouse in the morning, and in sunny weather. This is due to the fact that a gradual increase in temperature in the greenhouse during the day and the same gradual decrease in the evening will allow young plants to adapt to new conditions. It is difficult to predict how long shoots will appear, because in this case it all depends on how the greenhouse warms up. In a favorable time of year, cucumbers sprout quickly enough.
If frosts are still possible at night, in the greenhouse, the beds with planted cucumber seeds should be additionally covered with a transparent plastic wrap. It is necessary to water the seeds that have not yet risen at least 1 time per week. After the development of the first leaves, you will need to lightly mulch the soil. Top dressing of cucumbers and the formation of lashes can be started only after the first real leaves reach a height of more than 5 cm.
After planting cucumbers and the appearance of the first shoots, it is necessary to provide the plants with proper care.