Country secrets and tricks

Cucumbers under the film

I do not like hotbeds or greenhouses, so in my garden, instead of greenhouses for cucumbers, there are always beds covered with foil. These beds allow for a very early harvest. At the same time, it frees me from fiddling with seedlings, weeding and loosening the soil. I will reveal this and other summer cottage secrets below.

I plant cucumbers, as always, at the end of April, make small holes in the beds with an interval of 40-50 cm. I fall asleep in them with a shovel of fresh manure mixed with compost, sprinkle it with earth on top. I plant two sprouted seeds in each hole, water it abundantly with warm water. I cover the old beds with a film that I do not mind throwing away.

The organic mixture in the wells will decompose and generate heat, creating a favorable microclimate for seed germination. With the emergence of seedlings, the film is pierced in places for ventilation, when two or three pairs of leaves grow in cucumbers on the holes, I make cross-shaped cuts. And I thread the tops of the sprouts in them.

Weeds should not be pulled out underneath, they will not interfere with cucumbers. I water cucumbers only in summer in the heat with warm water with fertilizers, liquid mullein or bird droppings. Cucumber lashes spread over the surface of the film and do not get infected from the ground with fungus and rot, so cucumbers practically do not get sick. The fruits are all neat to collect their sheer pleasure.

Country secrets and tricks about growing radishes

Finally, this summer it was not possible to grow an excellent harvest of radishes, before that the roots were crooked and eaten from the inside. Pests have ruined almost all of my crops. I consulted with my brother and he said that, firstly, most likely my soil was oxidized, and advised me to add a hall to it.

Secondly, the root crops are damaged by the larva of the autumn cabbage fly, that is, it is necessary to give this pest a proper rebuff. Then I went on the offensive, while preparing the beds, I added ash to the soil. When she sowed the seeds, I also poured the hall, right into the grooves. I planted garlic along the edges of the garden to ward off pests.

As soon as the shoots appeared, I mixed tobacco dust with slaked lime and sprinkled the earth around the shoots. A week later, the procedure was repeated again. In several places she pulled out three radishes and examined the root crops.

Unfortunately, on one of them I noticed a clutch of cabbage fly, but the rest were clean. As the radish grew, she constantly removed the weeds and loosened the soil. Once I sprinkled the plants with ground pepper. All these simple steps helped me to get a good harvest of radishes.

Heat-loving broccoli

There is no need to rush with planting broccoli cabbage in open ground. Since broccoli does not tolerate cold weather very well and can release an arrow. I plant broccoli in mid-May. I cook a bed for broccoli, each time in a different place, this cabbage gets along well next to potatoes, onions and legumes.

Broccoli loves fertile soil, so we add humus or complex mineral fertilizers to the garden bed. Three hours before planting, I water the seedlings, plant them at a decent distance from each other (about 35 to 40 cm). Broccoli is very fond of water, so I make sure that it does not experience a moisture deficit.

Once a week, loose soil around the bushes. 3 weeks after planting, I water the cabbage with a mullein diluted in water.

Cottage secrets of an early harvest

My homemakers are very fond of soups and stews from the very first fresh vegetables. To please them as soon as possible with this yummy, I go to some tricks.

I plant several bushes of early potato varieties during the May holidays, so that the earth warms up under the sun several times a season, I loosen the earth so that it is downy and breathable.

I cover the planting with hay and buckets. I sow beets for June soup at home in boxes, and then plant them under a film, along the edges of a cucumber garden. The beets are warm and have time to grow leaves and form a root crop, before the cucumbers gain strength and do not bloom along the sides of the whip.

Carrots can be sown and before they only have to be protected from cold and rain, the seeds need to be hammered tightly into the ground, and when shoots appear, they need to be closed with boxes. In such a shelter, root crops will gain strength very quickly and will ripen very soon.

All these summer cottage secrets and tricks can be safely used in your summer cottage.