Feeding cucumbers with mullein and horse manure: how to breed and water

Feeding cucumbers with mullein is popular. This organic fertilizer or formulations with its addition are well accepted by the vegetable crop. To get only the benefits of top dressing, you need to know when and how much to apply.

Treatment and disease prevention

Cultivation of cucumbers is not complete without the application of mineral or organic fertilizers. Is it possible to use mullein in your summer cottage, the useful properties of this component will speak for themselves.

Mullein (cow dung) is an organic fertilizer that stimulates the growth and development of cucumbers, increases the number of ripe fruits, improves immunity and protects against many diseases.In the fertilized land, the number of many useful microelements increases: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, boron, iron and others. The composition is environmentally friendly and inexpensive.

You can reduce the risk of developing diseases among cucumbers even at the stage of preparing seeds for sowing. For sowing, it is best to take disinfected seeds. In addition to the common potassium permanganate solution, cow dung infusion is popular and effective. Recommended proportions 1:6.

Using a spray infusion helps prevent many fungal and viral diseases. If the disease has just been discovered, the stems of the bushes have become thinner, the leaves have withered and turned yellow, then foliar treatment is just as effective. In this case, manure is diluted in a ratio of 1:3 before use.

You can feed cucumbers with mullein several times during the entire growing season, with an interval of 12-14 days.It is especially useful when the plant looks lethargic, weak, and the leaves turn white on the stem. Suitable for the first feeding, when the first leaves are just beginning to unfold. The main thing is to know what kind of manure is suitable for cucumbers and at what time it is safe to use.

Basic rules for using fertilizer

Cucumbers benefit from mullein at various stages of their development, but it is different from slurry. Slurry contains many microelements in its composition, but it may contain pathogens of various infections. Mullein is obtained by fermentation and pathogens die during this process. Therefore, it is safer to work the land with mullein than with slurry.

A large number of trace elements are concentrated in the manure bed, beneficial microorganisms begin to multiply. It becomes profitable to plant vegetables on such plots of land. All useful substances contained in the soil are more easily absorbed by the plant when mullein is introduced.During the ripening period of the harvest, you can enjoy delicious and crispy cucumbers.

How to make a bed, vegetable growers recommend rotted manure for cucumbers. Before planting cucumbers, it is useful for them to process the garden during autumn or spring digging. If cucumbers are planted in such soil, then a rich and high-quality crop is obtained. Beds are also mulched with rotted manure and infusions for irrigation are prepared on its basis.

You can not use fresh manure for top dressing. Fresh manure can burn the root system and leaves. It is allowed to make an infusion from fresh manure for watering and spraying, or to put it in a clean, undiluted form only in the fall, digging up the ground.

Because unripe manure contains a lot of weed seeds, spreading on the plot causes weeds to spread.

Despite the fact that cucumbers love and accept mullein well, it should not be applied too often to the soil. An excess of some trace elements can harm the plant. Therefore, only a balanced application can be beneficial.

How to prepare a he althy composition

Ready-made mullein is for sale, but you can make do-it-yourself dressing for cucumbers. There are two main types of mullein: liquid and litter.

If there is bedding material from sawdust and straw in the stall, the cow accordingly gets bedding type manure. It turns out solid manure with the inclusion of straw. With prolonged storage, it begins to overheat, forming humus. It is also useful to feed plants with humus.

Fertilizer for liquid type cucumbers can be made as follows. Auxiliary components such as straw, fallen leaves, sawdust, potato tops or tomatoes are placed in a compost pit or a large plastic barrel. Everything is filled with liquid manure. Then the layer of auxiliary components is repeated again. Layers alternate to the very edge of the container.

You can feed cucumbers with a composition made in a different way. Fertilizer based on mullein should be started a week before applying to the beds. The easiest way to make a good top dressing is to dilute the mullein with water in a ratio of 1: 2 and leave to infuse.

The appearance of bubbles indicates the beginning of fermentation, the color becomes lighter. Before watering, the resulting solution is again diluted with water. Mullein infusion should be watered only between rows, avoiding contact with leaves and ovaries. To preserve all valuable properties, it is impossible to open a container with a ready-made solution.

There are several rules on how to feed a cucumber bed with prepared manure. For the entire period of development, it is recommended to feed the cucumber bed at least four times. Since a varied diet improves the development of cucumbers, it is useful to rotate nutrients.

The very first time, cucumbers should be fertilized with mullein before the start of the flowering period. The recommended dosage of manure is 250 g, which is diluted with a bucket of water. From the experience of gardeners: “Together with manure, I diluted 5 g of potassium sulfate, superphosphate and urea.”
Next time you need to fertilize at the start of fruiting. Instead of mullein, you can use chicken manure and wood ash, which are also bred in a bucket of water.
After two weeks, you can again water the cucumbers with a solution of mullein. Tip: "Separately dilute the mullein with water in a ratio of 1:3." For the composition, you still need to take a diluted solution (1 liter), add 5 g of potassium sulfate, urea and superphosphate.
The last feeding is recommended to be done in three weeks. Again, instead of cow dung, an infusion of bird droppings is prepared.

Cucumbers in the greenhouse for the first time can be fed with mullein two weeks after planting seedlings. In 10 liters of water, 1 liter of mullein is diluted and left to infuse for about three days. Then dilute with water again and add 250 g of wood ash.

When feeding plants, it is best not to pour the mullein solution under the root, but to put it in the grooves made next to the beds. After the solution has been absorbed, the grooves are again covered with earth.

Using horse and rabbit manure

Many vegetable growers note that it is much more effective for cucumbers in the open field to choose horse manure as a fertilizer. It decomposes much faster, warms up quickly and cools down slowly. Keeps heat for a long time, which has a beneficial effect on the development of cucumbers.

Horse manure, especially fresh, is best cultivated in autumn.For 1 sq. meter will need to take 5.5 kg of the main component. When digging the ground in spring, it is best to make rotted manure for cucumbers. During flowering and the formation of ovaries, it is most effective to water with liquid manure.

To make a bed for cucumbers when using horse manure in greenhouse conditions, the topsoil is first removed. Then manure is laid on top of the remaining beds and spilled with boiling water to get rid of all pathogens. After that, greenhouses and greenhouses are covered with a new layer of soil, the beds are dug up and leveled.

It is good for plants to make compost from horse manure. To prepare it, you need to put various plant wastes into a pit or a large container, for example, leaves, sawdust, tops of other vegetables and mix with prepared manure. To make liquid top dressing, manure is diluted with a bucket of water and left to infuse.

You can also feed cucumbers with rabbit manure, it is no less useful than cow or horse manure. It contains equal amounts of nitrogen, potassium, calcium, magnesium, various trace elements, vitamins and other valuable substances. Growing a good crop is easy, as all components are easily and quickly absorbed by plants. Manure loosens and fertilizes the soil.

Rabbit manure as a fertilizer is used in any form in a greenhouse or in open beds. Fresh litter is cultivated in the fall. To prepare the infusion, you need to take one part of manure and ten parts of water. Leave to infuse for 2.5 weeks. Compost is considered effective. They make a compost pit, about 1.5 meters deep, throw sawdust and leaves there. The heap will have an alternating vegetation layer with manure. Can be used for cucumbers in the spring, before planting.

The key to a good harvest is the correct and timely application of fertilizers. It is imperative to take into account the timing of manure application, and dilute the components in the recommended dosages.