Dates of planting greenhouse cucumbers for seedlings in 2016

25.03.2016 Cucumbers The calendar

In this article, we will consider not only the question of when to plant cucumbers for seedlings in 2016 for a greenhouse, but also other important points that will help to get an excellent crop of cucumbers this season.

Recommendations when and how to plant cucumbers

First of all, you immediately need to decide if seeds are bought to grow this crop in open ground or in a greenhouse. In this article, we provide information relevant to those cucumbers that will be grown in the greenhouse. After the seeds are planted in the ground, the first sprouts will appear on the third day. It is important immediately after planting the containers to cover with polyethylene and put in a warm place, up to 24 degrees.

If seedlings grown at home, then two weeks after the appearance of the sprouts, they can be planted in the greenhouse. You need to understand that if the seedlings of cucumbers spend too much time at home, then it will already be unsuitable for growing on beds.

Advice! To understand exactly when to transplant, you need to look at the weather. As a rule, for the middle zone of our country, you can sow seeds for seedlings in the greenhouse in early May. By mid-May, the soil will have time to warm up, and the seedlings will reach the desired level of development for transplanting.

Again, in the southern regions of our country, seedlings can be transplanted in the greenhouse earlier. For example, feel free to plant seeds on seedlings at the end of April. As for the cold regions of the country, for example, the Urals, there, on the contrary, it is better to shift the sowing work of seeds for seedlings by the end of May. Cucumbers can be grown in Siberia only in a greenhouse, where there is the possibility of good heating.

What varieties of cucumbers to choose for a greenhouse

In the beginning of spring, a painful choice begins, what interesting and new varieties of cucumbers to choose for the greenhouse this year. Modern breeders do not lag behind demand and are constantly pleased with new products. Cucumber seeds must be chosen correctly, especially if this variety has not been grown before.

For closed ground, which is the greenhouse, it is best to choose hybrid varieties (they have nothing to do with genetic engineering). Such varieties are marked with the label “F1”. Such plants can be pollinated independently, without the participation of insects. Everything happens due to the fact that female flowers prevail in them. Inside the already ripe fruit, the seeds will be small, which makes the cucumber tastier and even more pleasant in appearance. It is also best to buy early varieties of cucumbers.

Advice! Less fruit y a specific variety of cucumbers, the faster they ripen on the bush. This will speed up the first crop.

The best varieties for planting in a greenhouse are difficult to determine. Focus on the general tips that are given in this part of this article. These should be hybrids that are themselves pollinated, the fruits themselves should not be very large.

By the way, there are their own folk signs when planting cucumbers for seedlings in 2016 for a greenhouse. For example, it is believed that landing on Yuri’s day will be very successful in obtaining a rich and healthy harvest. This year Yuri’s day falls on May 6th and it’s not worth dragging out the sowing work much, it’s best to finish it before May 10th.

Stages of preparing cucumber seeds for planting:

First, the seeds are poured with a weak saline solution. This is done in order to separate the empty planting material: after a while it simply floats to the surface of the water.
Then the seeds, which are suitable for planting, should be washed from salt and soaked for 12 hours in clean water. The water temperature should be within 18 degrees of heat.
Seeds that have swollen will need to be spread out in a thin layer on a damp cloth, then cover them with a piece of damp cloth.
As soon as about 5% of the seeds hatch, they can be planted in the ground. Here it is necessary to pay attention that all seeds are planted in the ground at this stage, and not only those that have managed to germinate.
If the seeds have been painted by the manufacturer, then they should not be soaked. Such planting material was specially treated with a protective compound that, when soaked, the water will simply wash it off.

Do seeds need to be tempered?

For seedlings to grow healthy and strong, experienced gardeners highly recommend hardening it. This can be done in different ways, the simplest and most popular is to soak the seeds in water at 18 degrees, and then in water at zero degrees. Repeat the procedure for a week.

Landing Tips

It is possible to transplant seedlings of cucumbers into the ground after two weeks of its growth at home. The maximum period for which seedlings can stay at home is three weeks. By that time, 4 leaves will already have formed on the sprout, the root system will be weak, but this is normal for young shoots.

Advice! It is best to plant cucumbers in the greenhouse on the site where last year onions or peas and other crops characterized by early ripening grew. It is not necessary to divert beds under cucumbers where cabbage or any root crops grew.

First of all, the soil in the greenhouse will need to be additionally prepared. To do this, one square meter of land should add half a large spoon of urea. After that, dig the soil, pour hot water with the addition of 200 grams of liquid chicken droppings (taken at the rate of ten liters of water).

When the described preparatory procedures are over, you will need to cover the soil with a film and let it warm up well. All this is done one and a half to two weeks before the planned transplant indoor seedlings of cucumbers. Before planting cucumber seedlings, you need to be sure that at night the temperature in the greenhouse does not drop below 14 degrees. In the afternoon for the proper growth of cucumbers in the greenhouse should be about 20 degrees heat.

Important! If the temperature rises above 20 degrees Celsius, then you need to ventilate the greenhouse. Because cucumbers do not like strong heat. They will begin to show their dissatisfaction with the warmth that they will stretch and weaken.

Now you can independently decide when to plant cucumbers for seedlings in 2016 for a greenhouse. After the first sunrises, seedlings will need to be planted in the soil from the second to the end of the third week of growth. We wish you a good harvest!