In cucumber cultivation, there is a distinction between spring and autumn cucumber due to season. Autumn cucumbers, also known as dry cucumbers, are a variety of cucumbers, rich in tastes and nutrients, which are very popular。
Autumn cucumber cultivation is the only plant where the harvest ends before the beginning of the frost, while the permanent frostfree zone is the cucumber marketed in the summer cucumbers, which have a fertility period of between 80 and 90 days, which can be grown directly, as well as seedlings that can be planted and produced in open ground or sheds。
Autumn cucumbers are usually sowed about 70 days before the fall of the frost, and seedlings can be planted 7-10 days in advance. Autumn cucumbers suffer from severe illnesses and low yields due to high temperatures and rainy seasons during periods of seedling and pre-growth。
Autumn cucumber cultivation methods
I. Selection of plots
Cultivation should be chosen in the sandy soil where soil is fertile, fattening, water conservation and drainage are convenient, thus reducing the incidence of disease. The other species of cucumber must not be hit hard, otherwise the disease is more serious, making management more difficult and increasing production costs。
Selection of good castes
Depending on the long-term climatic characteristics of autumn cucumbers, varieties that are resistant to heat, flood, disease, high yield and strong growth should be chosen, as well as local varieties suitable for autumn cultivation in the region。
Iii. Autumn cucumbers
Due to their shallow roots, weak absorptive capacity, rapid production and high results, the field is established to apply sufficient base fat. The soil should normally be moderately ploughed in a timely manner after the harvest of the front crop, and the soil must be luminous, based on decomposed pigring fattening, with 2500 to 3,000 kg of acre. It is grown as a well-drained, small, high, 7 to 10 metres long, 1. 3 to 1. 4 metres long, 70 to 75 centimetres wide, 10 to 12 centimetres tall, 60 to 65 centimetres wide, and double-line cultivation. If the diaphragm is covered, disease prevention and flood control are better。
Iv. Field management
In accordance with the characteristics of the cucumber's different reproductive periods, various measures of fertilization, water irrigation and chinese farming should be adopted in a timely manner to regulate the promotion and control of a balanced development of nutritional production and reproductive growth, with a view to long-term growth in order to achieve high yields. Mainly:
1. Fertilizer management and chinese farming: the emphasis at the initial stage of seeding and transplantation is on water management to ensure seedlings or activities; the availability of live seedlings, detection of seedlings and the timely filling of seedlings to ensure whole seedlings by detecting faults; the subsequent application of nitrogen fertilizer, the reproduction of phosphate during the chicken season and the flowering season; and, in addition to the application of fertilizers, the application of water for increased fertilization. Before and after the harvest of the root melons, water should be controlled, combined with grass-cutting and shallow farming, with attention to drainage and flood prevention. It's usually watered every three to four days. In the latter part of the melon, the number of waters being poured decreased accordingly。
2. Arrays, chicken bindings, whole branches: the racks are carried out after the start of the chicken-smuggling process, with a tiara of bamboo poles or branches of more than 2 metres long, and the chickens are tied in time. The whole branch is covered with the main chicken, which has one or two beads, and is designed to take care of the old and yellow leaves。
V. Disease prevention and treatment
(c) implement a “preventive approach with a comprehensive approach” to prevent and eliminate diseases of autumn cucumber in a timely manner. The diseases of the autumn cucumbers include, inter alia, corruption, frost, disease, and dust。
