Description of the Natasha cucumber variety, cultivation features and yield
Currently, gardeners and truck farmers are trying to plant gherkins on their plots to get delicious cucumbers. Everyone thinks that salad varieties are unsuitable for preservation, so they don't use them. But Natasha cucumber, although a salad, is also suitable for canning and other seaming.
Hybrid characteristics
The cucumber originated from the crossing of two different early maturing varieties, therefore it received the f1 marking. A plant pollinated by bees. From planting seeds to obtaining cucumbers, 45 days pass. The bush is powerful, medium-growing, with medium green leaves. The yield is high - one square meter of planting gives up to 10 kilograms of cucumbers. The seeds are intended for planting in open ground.
When growing in closed areas, it is important to provide access to the premises for pollination.
Description of fruits - cylindrical, surface - green spiked. There are few thorns on the skin. The flower has bright stripes that do not reach the middle of the fruit. In the context, the variety has no voids, the taste is sweet cucumber without bitterness. The seeds are small, almost invisible. The weight of a mature fruit is 60 to 80 grams, length is 8–12 centimeters. Designed for all types of preservation and fresh consumption. The hybrid is resistant to powdery mildew, mosaic virus and cladosporiosis.
Positive qualities of Natasha
The gardeners who planted this hybrid on their plots left positive reviews about the variety, among them the following positive qualities of the cucumber stand out:
- High productivity.
- Great fruit taste.
- Resistant to many diseases.
- Excellent transport properties.
- Good fruit appearance.
- Early ripeness.
As you can see, the cucumber is ideal for growing on a personal plot for home use and for sale. Therefore, the hybrid is used by a large number of gardeners and entrepreneurs.
Agrotechnics of growing a hybrid
Growing characteristics - seeds are planted in open ground when the soil warms up to 10-12 degrees, and the air temperature up to 22 degrees during the day and 16 at night. Seeds are planted according to the scheme 50 by 30 centimeters from each other, 2 seeds per hole. To a depth of 3 centimeters. Before germination, you can cover the beds with foil.
Plant care
To obtain a high-quality harvest, plants need care during growth. It includes:
- weeding;
- watering;
- loosening;
- feeding.
Watering plants is carried out in the early morning or late evening, when the sun is not yet bright, so as not to burn the leaves and roots of the cucumber. When watering, do not get water on the leaves.
Weeding is carried out as needed so that the weed does not take nutrients and moisture from the cucumbers. Loosening of the soil is necessary to retain moisture in the ground, and air access to the roots of plants. Then fungi and pests will not develop in the ground. Top dressing is needed to feed the plants during growth. During the season, at least three dressings are carried out with mineral and organic fertilizers.
Methods for growing cucumbers in the garden
Lovers gardeners are inventing new things methods of growing cucumbers in the open field... They put them in barrels, put stalks on the trellis, make green arbors from cucumber tops. There are a huge number of cultivation methods, beauty depends only on the imagination of gardeners. So, with a long climbing cucumber Natasha f1, the whip can be launched along the trellis pre-installed on the garden bed. Thus, the borage will make an interesting fence of greens with fruits. This method has many advantages:
- convenient to harvest;
- all the leaves are visible;
- it is convenient to water;
- the plant does not lie on the ground, the probability of infection with fungus from the soil is low.
Can be planted in barrels or bags of two or three plants in one container. Then the cucumbers, as they grow, will go down, enveloping a kind of bed, and you will get pots with herbs in the beds.
For the gazebo, you will need containers in the form of buckets and the hands of a master. For this method, you need to make a gazebo with benches, instead of a roof, boards are stuffed every 20 centimeters. Buckets with plants are placed on the ground around the gazebo and, as they grow, they let the greens of the cucumber tops onto the roof. For this vertical growing method, use indeterminate cucumber varieties... They are not limited in growth, so the greenery will grow until late autumn.
