Cucumber

How to quickly germinate cucumber seeds before planting
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Before planting cucumbers, gardeners often germinate seeds. The procedure allows the plant to better take root in a new place and the first shoots to appear faster. How to germinate cucumber seeds quickly and correctly...

How to grow cucumbers on a windowsill in winter
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Not everyone has a vegetable garden or a summer cottage, but everyone wants to have tasty and healthy organic vegetables on the table. It’s not difficult to make this dream come true if you start cultivating vegetables in your apartment on the windowsill, ...

Secrets of the best agronomists: how to grow cucumbers in open ground
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Any summer resident wants to get a good harvest of cucumbers in his garden. The cultivation of these vegetables has its own subtleties, the observance of which increases it. They consist in choosing the right planting site, preparing seeds, ...

What is the calorie content of lightly salted cucumbers and can you eat them while losing weight?
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Normal weight is the key to health and well-being. Problems with excess body weight in 70% of cases are associated with an unbalanced diet and excess calories. Dietitians advise replacing baked goods to lose weight...

How to water cucumbers in a polycarbonate greenhouse: instructions and basic rules
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The quality of cucumber fruits largely depends on proper irrigation - if there is not enough moisture, the vegetables begin to taste bitter. As a rule, in temperate climates, cucumbers are grown in greenhouses, which allows maintaining temperature conditions and ...

What is barren flower on cucumbers and the features of its treatment that you may not know about
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When growing cucumbers, beginners and sometimes experienced gardeners often encounter the problem of barren flowers. The abundance of empty flowers on fences threatens a low harvest. Let's figure out why there are a lot of barren flowers on cucumbers, what to do...

Review of the hybrid cucumber Ajax f1: features, advantages and disadvantages
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Ajax F1 is a consistently productive hybrid that gardeners love for its resistance to adverse weather conditions and the marketable appearance of the fruit. Fans of pickles and pickled vegetables should pay attention to this...

Why cucumbers don’t grow in a greenhouse and how to effectively deal with this problem
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Cucumbers are a popular and relatively unpretentious vegetable crop. Many factors influence fruit growth: temperature, weather conditions, soil composition. Novice agronomists do not always follow the instructions for planting cucumbers and caring for them...

A selection of delicious recipes for preparing overripe cucumbers for the winter
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We are accustomed to using only small and medium-sized fruits for winter harvesting. And overripe large vegetables are left for seeds at best, or even thrown away altogether. No way ...

Requirements for soil for cucumbers in a greenhouse and rules for its preparation
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Cucumber is a demanding crop in terms of moisture and soil fertility. To get a good harvest, you need properly prepared soil for planting. The crop is characterized by accelerated fruiting, so already at the stage of soil preparation ...

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