How to tie a cucumber correctly

Some gardeners prefer not to tie cucumbers at all, but leave them to spread along the ground. This facilitates the care, but the harvested crop will be less. First, the plant will still tryto stretch up and at some point may break under the weight of the fruit. Secondly, if cucumbers spread along the ground, when harvesting you can simply not notice some fruits, and some of them will be spoiled just because of the proximity to the soil. Therefore, many truck farmers and ask the question: how to tie a cucumber correctly?

First, let's figure it out, when to tie a cucumber. Cucumbers growing in the open ground, you canbegin tie when the height of the plant reaches about 30 cm, and on the shoot will be 4-5 leaves. In the earlier garter just does not make sense. If you are late with a garter, there's nothing to worry about, just be more careful not to damage the plant.

The garter usually uses trellises. There are two ways of tying cucumbers - horizontal and vertical (depending on the type of trellis used). When horizontal mode It is necessary to install two supports with a height of about twometers (preferably metal) on opposite ends of the bed and stretch between them several horizontal rows of thick and strong rope. Be sure to make sure that the rope is well stretched. This method has one main disadvantage - cucumbers will be harder to grow up, they usually reach some horizontal row and then curl over it.

Vertical mode consists in the use of an U-shaped supportform a height of about two meters. To the horizontal support bar (its role can be performed, for example, by a thick wire), you need to attach the ropes and then tie each stem in turn. So each plant will have its own individual pressure - this is more convenient for a plant, and you will be easier to care for.

Tying cucumbers is best done with fairly wide strips of tissue (width - 2-4 cm), which will not damage the stemplants in the wind. The garter loop is made under the first or second sheet, and the end of the rope must be fixed on the horizontal support bar. Do not tighten the rope or make a strong knot: in the future, you may need to tighten or loosen the rope.

Some truck farmers tie a rope not to the plant itself, but to a peg inserted into the ground. This makes sense: sometimes the plant, tied directly to the rope, stretches too far up and eventually pulls itself out of the ground.

Such garter methods, as we have already said, are more often used for cucumbers growing in the open ground. How to tie a cucumber in a greenhouse? Most often, a special grid is used for this. Two canvases of such a grid should be pulled under an inclination to each other, so that the tent's likeness appears. Antennae of cucumbers should be placed on the net manually, and in the future the plant will independently cling to it, climbing upwards.

This method of garter is quite popular, because it helps significantly increase the yield of cucumbers and reduce the risk of plant diseases. In principle, you can stretch the grid not only ingreenhouse, but also on the plot. And some truck farmers use vertical trellises in the greenhouse, not a grid. In general, this is a matter of convenience and habit.

Now you know, how to properly tie a cucumber. We hope, our advice will help you to harvest a rich harvest!