Cucumber "Phoenix": variety description and care rules

Cucumbers - a traditional vegetable of Russian cuisine, without which it is simply impossible to imagine. Fresh, pickled and pickled - cucumbers have always been appreciated in Russia, and individually grown, they have a unique flavor and taste, pleasing the eye and inspiring faith in their strength. For gardeners, it is important to grow your favorite vegetable, so you need to seriously choose a variety. One of the most productive domestic varieties is the cucumber "Phoenix".

Features of culture

A bee-dusted cucumber for open ground is considered a grade of late maturation. Perhaps its cultivation with a temporary use of film shelters. As a classic ground cucumber, Phoenix has an overwhelmingly feminine type of flowering. Fruiting begins 55-65 days after the germination of seeds and usually yields from the middle of July to the onset of cold weather.

Being a versatile variety, Phoenix is excellent for both fresh and any type of processing - salting, marinating or billets of long-term salads. Fruits of regular elongated form weighing up to 180 gr., Reach a value of 15-16 cm, have a pimply surface of bright green color with light patches and the same light spines. Cucumber "Phoenix" is characterized by excellent taste qualities of tender pulp with small grains and a thin skin.

A strong, strongly branched bush can reach a three-meter length of the main stem. The leaves are dark green, the ovaries in the sinuses are bundles. The main qualities of the culture are high resistance to typical cucumber infections - powdery mildew and mosaic patchiness. Pleases the variety and good yield. With qualitative care, it is able to give from 7 to 10 kg per square meter.

Rules for planting cucumbers

Cucumber "Phoenix" prefers neutral fertile soils fertilized with organic matter without a close groundwater approach . Constant planting it in the same place is not recommended - the yield decreases. The best precursors of cucumbers are onions, tomatoes, potatoes. Planting is carried out in well-warmed soil on sunny areas, protected from drafts. Daytime temperatures for the normal development of this thermophilic plant should be at least 22 ° C, night temperatures - 18 ° C. On one square meter, no more than 3-4 bushes are planted, the thickening of the crops will lead to the inhibition of each other's plants and, as a result, the occurrence of various infections.

In addition to making humus for digging before planting, it is necessary to carry out additional fertilizing:

• Nitrogen (2 g / 1 m ² ) after the appearance of the 3rd sheet;

• twice during the vegetation period - nitrogen-potassium fertilizer (20 g / 1 m ² ).

Cucumber "Phoenix": reviews of gardeners

According to the responses and recommendations of experienced truck farmers this variety is very productive both in southern and moderate Russian latitudes.