The most widespread vegetables practically on each ground are crispy cucumbers. Of course, they, like any culture, need care . But it is not less important to guess with when you need to plant cucumbers in the open ground.
When can you plant cucumbers in the open ground?
Usually cucumbers are planted in two ways - seedless and seedling. If you prefer the latter method, it is worth considering that the optimal time for planting cucumber seedlings in the open ground is directly dependent on how warm the soil is. With insufficient temperature, the seedlings begin to ache, become sick and can even die. What crop can we talk about in this case?
It is necessary to be guided by the established warm weather (day above +15 ⁰С), and also that at the depth of ten centimeters soil temperature was not below +10 ⁰С. For southern regions this time is at the end of April - beginning of May. For the middle strip, planting seedlings of cucumbers to produce earlier than the middle and even the end of May does not make sense.
When can you sow cucumbers in the open ground?
Many farmers prefer to grow crispy vegetables not from seedlings, but seeds. In order for you to rejoice in the harvest in summer, it is also important to determine the timing of sowing cucumbers in the open ground. Here, too, you may need a thermometer. The fact is that the seed material successfully germinates, but does not perish, only if the soil in the upper part is heated to +13 + 15 ° C. At the same time, it is important that warm weather is observed, at which the air will not warm below + 17 ° C. And then the seeds will quickly germinate. And soon on their beds you will see characteristic sprouts. If we talk about how many days the cucumbers rise in the open ground, then, if the above-mentioned temperature requirements are observed, the shoots will appear on the fourth-seventh day. And this is subject to preliminary germination of seeds.