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- Harvest cucumbers - you should pay attention
- When can I finally pick cucumbers?
- Harvesting cucumber regularly increases the yield
- The 4 most important cucumber harvesting tips
- Tips & Tricks
Harvest cucumbers - you should pay attention
Everyone knows them small crispy, long thin and even in blue: cucumbers. The first cucumbers are available in the greenhouse from July. The fruits of the cucumber tree and cucumbers need more time. They follow three to four weeks later. Which cucumbers are ripe when? The four most important harvest tips.
When can I finally pick cucumbers?
Whether for a snack, as a salad, soup, vegetables or as a cooling mask - cucumbers from your own garden or balcony taste crispy delicious and are versatile. With proper care and fertilization of cucumbers, gardeners harvest cucumbers galore.
Already 3 weeks after flowering, cucumbers ripen. When sowing early in the greenhouse, they are already ripe from the end of May. Open air from July to October. The harvest time depends on the purpose of the respective cucumbers:
In terms of taste, cucumbers are the most delicious if they have not yet reached the size of supermarket cucumbers. As soon as they turn yellow they are overripe.
Harvesting cucumber regularly increases the yield
You can not harvest cucumbers too early. Best to lose weight regularly and do not let it get too big. Anyone who leaves cucumbers on the plant for too long risks being watered down, becoming bitter and partially repelling subsequent fruits in the early stages. Therefore, remove overripe fruits immediately from the plant so as not to weaken them unnecessarily. So nothing like ran to the delicious cucumbers ;-).
Ideally you can harvest fresh cucumbers twice a week until the end of October.
The 4 most important cucumber harvesting tips
Tips & Tricks
That's bitter - cucumbers react bitterly in stressful situations like cold, heavy rain or too cold irrigation water. The bitter substances are distributed from the stem into the cucumber. Therefore, the cucumber end sometimes tastes bitter and can be eaten. That cucumbers are bitter, is genetic. Wrong care can favor this.