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Zucchini zucchini “Tiger” is considered a relatively new vegetable among gardeners. According to its external characteristics, it is similar to a zucchini. Let’s try to find out its distinctive features, taste characteristics.
Valuable vegetable in a regular garden
Zucchini is the most valuable vegetable crop, which includes B vitamins, numerous carbohydrates, carotene, and also a large amount of ascorbic acid. Zucchini “Tiger” contains about twice as much carotene than carrots.
Nutritionists recommend including this miraculous vegetable in food for those patients who dream of getting rid of extra pounds.
Zucchini variety
Currently, in our country there are several types of varieties, each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages. Of interest is the variety “Tiger Cub”, which we will talk about in more detail. This low-calorie vegetable came to the taste of culinary specialists. “Tiger cub” is used to prepare delicious second courses, it is marinated, canned, and jam is made from it.
Zucchini “Tiger” is considered one of the most fruitful varieties of zucchini. Subject to all the rules for its cultivation and care, it is quite possible to get up to 15 kilograms per square meter of land. It is enough to plant two or three Tiger Cub bushes to grow tasty and healthy vegetables.
Characteristic of the variety
Its fruits have a dark green color, small speck as if reminiscent of the name of this variety. The average size of the fruit is 35-45 centimeters, the diameter of the fruit reaches 10 centimeters. By planting tiger cub bushes on one square meter of land, you can collect up to 15 kilograms of fruits.
Zucchini “Tiger” is resistant to numerous diseases, but in rainy summers, the vegetable cannot resist fungal diseases.
After carefully watching the video clip, you can learn a lot of useful information about the care of seedlings, the rules of care:
Growing rules
In Italy, zucchini has been cultivated for several decades. It is from here that zucchini seeds came to our country. Gardeners will not have any particular difficulties in growing Tiger Cub zucchini. The cultivation algorithm is similar to the cultivation of ordinary zucchini.
First you need to select the seeds, soak them in a solution that stimulates growth, then place the seeds in a damp gauze. After pecking the seeds, you can plant them in open or film-protected soil.
Some gardeners prefer to cook Tiger Cub seeds in the refrigerator. They place the seeds for 2 days at zero temperature.
When choosing a site for planting seeds of this variety, it is desirable to give preference to areas illuminated by sunlight. This variety is considered light-loving, in the shade you can not count on a high yield.
Soil preparation for zucchini should be done in early spring. First, the site must be dug up, then phosphorus fertilizer and humus are introduced into the soil.
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Conclusion
To increase the yield of Tiger Cub fruits, flowers are often sprayed with a solution prepared from a gram of boric acid and one hundred grams of sugar dissolved in one liter of water. The zucchini variety “Tiger” demonstrated to gardeners its high yield, excellent taste, and therefore is in demand among summer residents.