Folk remedies for a better harvest of cucumbers: recipes for top dressing for open ground

When growing cucumbers, in addition to regular watering, pinching and prevention diseases, the summer resident is required to make top dressing. Indeed, only in rich soil will healthy plants grow, which will delight you with high yield rates.

Horticultural markets have a huge selection of cucumber fertilizers. Most of them are made with the addition of chemical components and, increasing the productivity of plants, reduce their environmental friendliness. Therefore, responsible gardeners prefer homemade recipes to purchased preparations.

Signs of nutritional deficiencies

Feeding cucumbers outdoors with folk remedies is a must if you want to get an early and rich harvest. Nutrients are needed for the formation of ovaries and fruit formation... Cucumbers cannot independently extract all the necessary compounds from the soil at great depths due to the superficial root system.

It is recommended to fertilize cucumbers at least twice a season. If the soil is initially poor, an increased amount of dressing is applied.

The lack of nutrients affects not only the yield of cucumbers. With a nutritional deficiency in plants, immunity decreases, and infections affect them much more often.

If the cucumbers lack any element, they start to hurt:

1. With a lack of nitrogen, the leaves become light and small. The tip of the fruit also brightens, tapers and bends. Nitrogen fertilizers include "green" fertilizers.
2. With a deficiency of potassium, the edges of the leaves look burnt. They turn brown and dry, and the fruit becomes spherical and watery. One of the options for potash fertilizers is wood ash.
3. With a lack of phosphorus, the leaves begin to grow upward. The deficiency of this trace element will make up for spraying the bushes with an ash solution.
4. With magnesium starvation, the leaves acquire a "marble" color - a cobweb of light lines appears on them.
5. With a lack of other trace elements, the leaves turn yellow-green. This usually happens in the absence of foliar dressing.

Optimal time for top dressing

Experienced gardeners use the following feeding scheme:

1. First time - at the stage of growing seedlings, 2 weeks before planting in open ground. No more than 1 liter of solution is used per 1 m².
2. Second time fertilizers are applied 10-14 days after the dive into the open ground. Use up to 3 liters of the product per 1 m².
3. During the period of active flowering and the formation of ovaries, a third feeding is applied... At this stage, the amount of fertilizer increases to 5 liters per 1 m².
4. During fruiting the soil is fertilized a fourth time. For 1 m² of plantings, 7 liters of nutrient mixture are used.
5. Last time - 2 weeks after the previous feeding.

A larger amount of dressing is applied only if the plant shows signs of a deficiency of any compounds. In nutrient soils, the introduction of a second and last dressing is optional.

Top dressing rules

Often the reason for the decline in yields and plant diseases is improper fertilization. This is due to the fact that saturated mixtures are used to enrich the soil composition.With improper use, as well as with an excess of substances, they negatively affect the root system of cucumbers.

There are a number of rules for feeding cucumbers. Let's consider them in detail.

Fertilizing at the root

Most of the fertilizers are applied at the root. Be sure to use solutions to accelerate the flow of substances through the root system.

It is important to follow a number of rules:

1. The interval between dressings is at least 2 weeks.
2. Water the plantings abundantly the day before fertilizing. It is convenient to feed cucumbers after rain. Otherwise, the nutrient composition will burn the root system.
3. It is recommended to alternate organic formulations with mineral ones.
4. No more than two nitrogen fertilizers are applied per season. They lead to abundant green mass formation. With an excess of nitrogen, few fruits are formed.
5. Top dressing is applied when the sun is inactive: early in the morning, at sunset, on cloudy days. Fertilizers make plants more sensitive to the sun.
6. All fertilizers are applied at the root in the form of a solution. Plants assimilate nutrients only in this form.
7. After picking, fertilizers are applied no earlier than 2 weeks later, otherwise the cucumbers will not take root well.

Foliar dressing

Foliar dressing involves spraying the bushes with nutrients. In this case, microelements penetrate the plant through its greenery.

Cucumbers are fed when signs of nutrient deficiencies appear.

Some gardeners do this routinely:

• at the beginning of flowering;
• during fruit ripening;
• at the end of fruiting.

Here are some tips for processing plants:

1. The dose of the nutrient composition for spraying is half that for root application.
2. Plants are fed when the sun is inactive. Otherwise, burns will form on the leaves.
3. It is important that the fertilizer is not washed off the plant within two hours after spraying. This time is enough for trace elements to penetrate into the ground part.
4. Each new remedy try first on one bush. If after a day the plant looks healthy, spray all plantings.

Advantages of fertilizers without chemicals

Before feeding cucumbers outdoors with folk remedies for growth, check out the advantages of this method:

1. Saving. For most home fertilizers, the ingredients are not purchased but made from waste.
2. Environmental friendliness. Home fertilizers do not contain harmful substances, which allows you to grow an environmentally friendly product.
3. Safety. Overdose with folk remedies is less likely than with chemicals.

Folk recipes for feeding cucumbers

There are a huge number of folk recipes for feeding cucumbers. For them, medicines, food waste, and livestock waste products are used. Among the variety of dressings, each gardener will choose the appropriate option.

Ash

Ash contains dozens of useful trace elements. The most important are phosphorus and potassium. They promote the development of a strong root system and the formation of a large number of ovaries.... therefore ash feeding used by most gardeners.

When planting plants, fertilizer is applied for the first time. For this, a handful of ash is poured into each hole.

Next, twice a season, the beds are watered with an ash solution. For its preparation, 1 kg of fertilizer is taken on a bucket of water. The mixture is infused for a day. The resulting infusion is fed to the plants using 1-2 liters per bush.

Manure

Manure and poultry manure are the most popular fertilizers for gardeners. They contain many beneficial substances, and they do not contain live weed seeds. It is important to remember that such feedings contain a large amount of nitrogen. They are brought in 1-2 times per season. Otherwise, the plants will produce a lot of greenery, but little fruit.

Clean manure and chicken droppings you cannot make.

They are used to prepare infusions that reduce the concentration of the composition:

1. Bovine or horse manure. Dilute with water in a ratio of 1: 4.The mixture is infused for 4 days, stirring it periodically. Then the resulting composition is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10. 1 liter of fertilizer is poured under each bush.
2. Chicken droppings. The fertilizer is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10. The mixture is infused for a day. Pour 1 liter of infusion under each bush.

Often additional components are added to such fertilizer. For example, 35 g of superphosphate per bucket of infusion and 1 tbsp. ash. This saturates the fertilizer with the necessary potassium and phosphorus.

Green fertilizers

Compost and humus are always used to enrich the soil composition. They contain all the essential nutrients and are ideal for melons and gourds.

The first time fertilization is applied in the fall, long before planting. Up to 6 kg of humus or compost are instilled on 1 m².

Compost and humus are made from weeds and food waste. They are piled up in one pile, where the fertilizer rotts, turning into a nutritious substrate.

To prepare a liquid fertilizer, 1 kg of humus is diluted in 10 liters of water. For 1 plant use 1 liter of solution.

Yeast and beer

Yeast contains a lot of nitrogen. They stimulate plant growth and protect them from pests.

To prepare the fertilizer, a package of "wet" yeast is poured into 10 liters of room temperature water and 1 tbsp. jam or sugar. The mixture is allowed to brew for 3 days.

Each plant consumes 0.5 liters of fertilizer. Top dressing is applied 1 time per season, when the soil warms up.

Top dressing is also prepared from beer. For this, 1 liter of live beer is diluted in 10 liters of water. 1 liter of infusion is poured under 1 bush.

Onion peel

Onion peel contains vitamins and useful trace elements, including phosphorus and potassium. This fertilizer is used for root application and spraying of plants.

To prepare the product in 1.5 liters of water, boil 1 tbsp. onion peel for 5 minutes. The resulting concentrate is poured into 5 l of water. For 1 plant, 1 liter of fertilizer is consumed.

Herbal infusions and decoctions

Herbal infusions are good because weeds become raw materials for their preparation. Such a tool does not require any financial costs. It is easy to prepare it at any time. This is a complex mineral-organic fertilizer that is suitable for any feeding.

For the preparation of fertilizers, the harvested plants without signs of diseases are cleaned of seeds and roots. They fill any container 2/3. The rest is poured with warm water. The mixture is left to ferment for 2 weeks.

1 liter of the resulting infusion is diluted with 10 liters of water. Under each bush pour from 1 to 2 liters of the mixture.

Advice! The most useful plant for making such a top dressing is nettle.

Acetylsalicylic acid

Aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid, is another feeding option. It not only has a positive effect on the development of cucumbers, but also protects them from fungal infections.

To prepare the fertilizer, it is enough to dissolve 1 tablet in 1 liter of water. This amount is enough to water 1 plant.

Food waste

Fertilizers are prepared from them, saturated with all the necessary components for the development of cucumbers:

1. One method of making fertilizers is using banana peels... It contains a large amount of potassium necessary for cucumbers. The recipe is simple. To do this, it is enough to pour 5 banana skins with 5 liters of beer. The tool is insisted for 3 days. Then it is diluted with reins in a 1: 1 ratio and used for watering.
2. Egg shell fertilizer Is another popular way to use food waste for cucumbers. For its preparation, the shell of 6 eggs is crushed and poured with boiling water. The tool is insisted for a week, stirring regularly. Top dressing is used for seedlings.
3. Potato peel also suitable for preparing top dressing. 1/3 of the bucket is filled with waste. The rest of the volume is poured with boiling water and insisted for a week. The resulting product is diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 5. 1 liter of fertilizer is poured under 1 bush.

Many gardeners use a mixture of food waste. Any vegetable peel and eggshell will do.

Aloe

Aloe is an excellent growth stimulant for cucumber seeds. With its help, the first shoots will appear much faster, and the plants will turn out to be more hardy and strong.

To prepare the fertilizer, aloe juice is diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio. In the resulting composition, the planting material is soaked before sowing for 12 hours.

Iodine and milk

Iodine with milk strengthens the immunity of plants and activates their growth... It also has powerful antifungal properties. It is used for watering and spraying plants.

To prepare fertilizer, 1 liter of milk or whey and 30 drops are poured into a bucket of water iodine... The rest of the volume is made up with plain water at room temperature.

Conclusion

Homemade fertilizers for cucumbers are much safer than purchased preparations. They do not contain chemicals that negatively affect the environment and crop safety.

Folk dressing recipes involve the use of ash, compost and cheap food waste. They show excellent results increasing the quality and quantity of the crop and increasing plant endurance.