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Cucumber Masha: agricultural techniques and reviews of gardeners
Almost every gardener grows green "crocodiles" on his site. It's no wonder cucumber is a delicious and healthy vegetable that ripens before everyone else, in June you can enjoy fragrant and crispy fruits. Today we will tell you about the cucumber Masha. Perhaps, already this year you will want to try to plant it on your site. Pleases very fast ripening of fruits, in fact in the very beginning of summer still so it is not enough than it is possible to regale.
Variety description
To begin with, this is a hybrid, which means that the chance to get a crop is very high. Cucumber Masha is an ultra-early and very high-yielding variety, which pleases cottage dwellers with crispy fragrant fruits. What else is he remarkable about? Cucumber Masha belongs to the cornichons and has excellent taste qualities. The fruits are saturated green, very beautiful. If you are selling vegetables from your site, then their excellent presentation will facilitate rapid implementation.
Cucumber Masha is good in any form. It can be eaten fresh and added to salads, it also fits well for salting. Very delicious are marinated gherkins, they are small, tender and crunchy. You should know that these cucumbers are not only delicious, but also useful. On 95% they consist of water, it is impossible to recover from them. But they also contain fiber, sugar, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iodine and some vitamins.
Landing
Sure you are interested in cucumbers Masha. Cultivation of them does not present any complexity. Depending on the region, choose a seedling method or sowing in open ground. The more south you live, the more suitable will be the method of sowing right into the garden. In the middle band, you can prepare a greenhouse and, giving him a good warm up, sow the seeds under the film. In the northern regions, seedling is preferred. Although the unique early ripeness of the variety will help you to harvest, even with the late planting of plants.
Seeds for growing seedlings are prepared in mid-April. They need to be treated with a solution of potassium permanganate and sowed in prepared soil. Cucumbers do not like picking, so it's best to plant them immediately in separate pots. When the shoots are 20-25 days old, and the soil warms up to +15-20 degrees in the daytime and +8 at night, plants can be planted in the soil.
Since the variety is very early-ripening, it is possible to grow cucumbers for the early harvest in seedlings and plant them under a film, and with the onset of stable warm weather, sow the second batch in the open ground. Then by the time the first crop is no longer yielding, the second crop will enter the fruiting period.
Care
The constant attention is demanded by cucumbers Masha. The comments of gardeners suggest that you will spare yourself some of the worries if you put a net on the bed to pull on. Otherwise, they will need to be tied up. As soon as the shoots take root or appear above the ground, they need to properly digest and feed.
Cucumbers are demanding for irrigation. Do not forget to soil loosely and remove the weeds. Another task of the gardener will be the formation of a bush, the periodic pinching of shoots.
Bloom
It occurs about 30 days after planting. Blossoms a variety willingly and very abundantly. The plant is self-pollinated, so it is suitable even for closed greenhouses. With sufficient nutrition and good conditions (light, heat), each node forms 6-7 fruits. This is a very good yield.
During the flowering period, it is necessary to water and feed the plant in time. Otherwise, there may be a lot of bloom. But usually such problems do not arise, it is confirmed by gardeners who have already grown cucumbers Masha. Testimonies indicate that this is a powerful plant that does not give too much foliage. It is very convenient and does not interfere with harvesting.
Harvesting
Fruit ripening occurs after 38-44 days after planting. If growing seedlings, then 20 days after transplanting into the soil, it will already give the first cucumbers. Usually mass maturation occurs after 45-50 days. Gherkins should be collected very often, as overripe fruits lose their taste. In addition, staying on the bush, they interfere with the growth and development of new fruits.
Inclination to diseases
Seeds of cucumbers Masha are treated with a fungicide. This provides resistance to various diseases. In particular, it is cladosporium, cucumber mosaic virus, powdery mildew and many others. Gardeners know how difficult it is to fight these ailments. Therefore, disease is much easier to prevent than treat. Not always the treatment with chemicals can save the plant, which means it will have to be repeated again.
Reviews of gardeners
Among the gardeners of our country are extremely popular cucumbers Masha. Their price is more than affordable, for a package in which ten seeds, you will give 18 rubles. There are large packs of 1000 seeds, they will cost 2300 rubles. Reviews call this variety the best of all that exist on the market. All emphasize its amazing yield and excellent taste, absolutely without bitterness. Another nice addition is the resistance to disease. Gardeners say that before the appearance of this variety often encountered an unpleasant phenomenon. The adult plant lowers the leaves and withers, and does not have time to harvest. Masha, year after year, is pleased with an excellent harvest without any worries. You do not have to use chemistry and worry that it will get into the body if the child eats a dirty fruit from the treated bed.
All the best!
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