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- Planting outdoor cucumbers - that's how cultural demands are fulfilled
- Which location do cucumbers want?
- Which soil is suitable for outdoor cucumbers?
- Which cucumbers sow and which ones plant?
- Outdoor cucumbers want to hold on
- From flowering to cucumber
- Tips & Tricks
Planting outdoor cucumbers - that's how cultural demands are fulfilled
Whether as a salad, braised vegetables or facial mask: they taste delicious, are healthy and a cool treat on the skin. More and more hobby gardeners want to plant free-range cucumbers themselves. What matters is what they absolutely need from flowering to harvest to meet their cultural demands.
Cucumbers can not be fresher than grown vegetables. Because of their specific active ingredients, they are used not only as a versatile food, but also as a moisturizer in cosmetics. There are over 40 types of cucumbers. Some recommended resistant F1-free-range cucumbers:
Which location do cucumbers want?
Outdoor cucumbers are less sensitive to cold. You can go outside when the floor temperature is over 10 degrees. They like all cucumbers a warm and full sun, wind sheltered as possible site.
Which soil is suitable for outdoor cucumbers?
Cucumber earth must be loose, nutritious and rich in humus - and outdoor cucumbers love stable dung. A proven cucumber substrate recipe for picking cucumbers under cucumbers.
Which cucumbers sow and which ones plant?
Think about whether you prefer to grow cucumbers in the greenhouse or if you prefer to buy young plants and plant them directly in the garden. This saves the daily hardening of the plants and transplanting. If you want to pick free-range cucumbers yourself, you should start in mid-April.
Outdoor cucumbers want to hold on
Whether on the ground or while climbing - outdoor cucumbers rarely grow in the desired direction. Planting rods or trellises help the plants to grow healthily and to carry ripe fruits more easily.
From flowering to cucumber
From the end of May outdoor cucumbers are ripe in the greenhouse. Three weeks after flowering - with early plants starting in July - the first cucumbers can be harvested outdoors. Important: Cut the ripe cucumbers regularly from the plant. This promotes the ripening of other fruits. Ideally, you can pick free-range cucumbers twice a week by the end of September.
Tips & Tricks
Too many free-range cucumbers? Quick and easy to preserve: Ingredients - bay leaves, peppercorns, mustard seeds, waxy berries, dill, vinegar and water. 1/3 cucumber vinegar 2/3 water with ingredients to boil. Cut cucumbers into arbitrary jars. Pour over the hot brew, screw well - done!