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What tricks do not use in today’s difficult times, many gardeners to grow a good harvest. Folk remedies have acquired particular importance, since they not only allow significant savings on fertilizers and other plant care products, but also grow healthy, environmentally friendly products, which is especially important in recent years.
Such a popular culture in Our Country as a cucumber could not be ignored, because all experienced gardeners are well aware of how insatiable these plants are. To get a good crop of greens, the soil must be fertilized as much as possible, but even under these conditions, cucumbers consume so many nutrients that they need to be fed weekly. Feeding cucumbers with yeast allows you to solve several problems at once. Firstly, there is an additional influx of nutrients, and secondly, plants receive significant growth stimulation due to the strengthening and development of the root system. But now about everything in order.
The action of yeast and their effect on plants
Probably every adult and even a child is familiar with yeast. Their presence is a guarantee of lush baking, they are used for the production of kvass and beer, they are added to medicines, used in cosmetology. Yeasts are unicellular fungal organisms with a very rich content. So, the amount of proteins in them can reach up to 65%, and amino acids make up about 10% of the mass of the product. In the composition of yeast, you can also find a variety of minerals, organic iron and trace elements. It seems that it is thanks to this wealth that the saturation of plants occurs. In fact this is not true.
As a result, many elements useful for plants are released in an ideally assimilable form for them, in particular, nitrogen and phosphorus. From this it follows that for active and long-term exposure to yeast, the soil must be saturated with organic matter. If it is not enough, then a quick positive effect will occur in any case, but the soil will soon be depleted. Moreover, during fermentation, yeast absorbs large amounts of potassium and calcium.
What can be the conclusion? Yeast, of course, is not a fertilizer in the conventional sense. They just speed up the breakdown of organic matter. On the other hand, many fresh organic fertilizers such as manure, bird droppings, or compost, when mixed with yeast fungi, can inhibit their activity. Therefore, organic matter must be applied to the ground in advance, at least a few weeks before the use of yeast top dressing. In addition, wood ash must be added to the garden at the same time as the yeast as a source of potassium and calcium. Some yeast nutrition recipes use dairy products to help restore calcium to the soil.
Another unique property of yeast is its ability, when dissolved in water, to release special substances that enhance root formation.
Naturally, a good and strong root system of cucumbers forms a healthy and powerful aerial part, so abundant flowering and fruiting will not take long. And the gardener will be able to enjoy a large number of tasty and crispy cucumbers.
Finally, the action of yeast in the presence of a sufficient amount of organic matter in the soil is very long. For example, one yeast dressing for cucumbers can allow plants to do without additional fertilization for a month or even two. This helps to significantly save time, effort and fertilizer and cannot but attract the attention of gardeners.
cooking recipes
In order to prepare fertilizer from yeast, there are several proven recipes. For making cucumbers, you can use any type of yeast: dry and fresh, baker’s and alcohol.
From fresh yeast
Some recipes call for a quick preparation of the nutrient solution, while others require the yeast to brew for a while.
- Recipe number 1. In one liter of warm water, you need to dilute 100 g of yeast. Bring the volume of the solution to 10 liters. You can feed cucumbers on the same day. One liter of the prepared solution is used to spill one bush of cucumbers. If you add about 50 g of sugar to this recipe, then it is better to leave the solution to infuse in a warm place for a day or two. The rest of the action is the same.
- Recipe number 2. Dissolve 100 g of yeast in one liter of warm milk. Insist for several hours, bring the volume of liquid to 10 liters and use for watering and spraying cucumbers. Instead of milk, you can use whey or any other dairy product.
From dry yeast
Usually dressing for cucumbers from dry yeast is infused a little more in time than from fresh natural ones.
- Recipe number 3. 10 g of dry yeast and 2 tablespoons of sugar are dissolved in 10 liters of warm water and infused from several hours to several days. Before feeding cucumbers, one liter of infusion is diluted in five liters of water.
- Recipe number 4. In five liters of water, 1 tbsp is diluted. a spoonful of yeast, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar and 2 grams of ascorbic acid, a handful of earth is added there. Everything is infused for a day in a warm place. When feeding, 1 liter of infusion is added to a bucket of water.
Features of feeding cucumbers with yeast
When using a yeast solution for feeding cucumbers, the following nuances must be considered:
- Yeast can work only in a warm environment, so processing is only possible at a temperature not lower than +10°С+15°С. However, cucumbers also grow poorly at low temperatures, so this condition is easy to meet.
- It is advisable not to use yeast fertilizer for cucumbers too often, only 2-3 times per season is enough. Two periods are optimal for introducing a yeast solution: a week after planting seedlings in the ground (or when 4-6 leaves open) and after the first wave of fruiting.
- Since the yeast actively absorbs potassium and calcium from the soil, be sure to add wood ash and crushed eggshells at the same time. A dose equal to one tablespoon under a bush will be enough.
- Yeast top dressing works equally well in the greenhouse and in the open field. But in the greenhouse, due to elevated temperatures, all processes will proceed rapidly, so adding sugar to the yeast solution when feeding cucumbers in greenhouse conditions is not necessary.
- Top dressing with yeast not only increases the number of ovaries in cucumbers, but also reduces the hollowness of the fruit.
Testimonials from truck drivers
To summarize
Reviews of gardeners on the use of yeast top dressing are extremely positive. This is not surprising, given the rapid effect of yeast on plant development. It is only necessary to comply with all conditions when using this top dressing and the harvest will only please you.