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What tricks do many gardeners use in today's difficult time to grow a good harvest. Folk remedies acquired particular importance, since they not only allow significant savings on fertilizers and other plant care products, but also grow healthy, environmentally friendly products, which is especially important in recent years.
Such a popular culture in Russia as a cucumber could not be ignored, because all experienced gardeners are well aware of how insatiable these plants are. To get a good harvest of zelents, the soil must be fertilized as much as possible, but even under these conditions, cucumbers consume such an amount of nutrients that they need to be fed weekly. Feeding cucumbers with yeast allows you to solve several problems at once. Firstly, there is an additional influx of nutrients, and secondly, plants receive significant growth stimulation due to the strengthening and development of the root system. But now about everything in order.
The action of yeast and its effect on plants
Probably every adult and even a child is familiar with yeast. Their presence is a guarantee of magnificent baking, they are used for the production of kvass and beer, they are added to medicines, and used in cosmetology. Yeasts are unicellular fungal organisms with a very rich content. So, the amount of proteins in them can reach 65%, and amino acids make up about 10% of the mass of the product. In the composition of yeast, you can also find a variety of minerals, organic iron and trace elements. It seems that it is thanks to this wealth that the saturation of plants occurs. In fact this is not true.
As a result, many elements useful for plants are released in an ideally assimilable form for them, in particular nitrogen and phosphorus. It follows from this that for an active and long-term effect of yeast, the soil must be saturated with organic matter. If it is not enough, then a quick positive effect will occur in any case, but the soil will soon be depleted. Moreover, during fermentation, yeast absorbs a large amount of potassium and calcium.
What conclusion can be drawn? Yeast, of course, is not a fertilizer in the conventional sense. They simply accelerate the breakdown of organic matter. On the other hand, many fresh organic fertilizers such as manure, poultry droppings or compost, when interacting with yeasts, can inhibit their vital functions. Therefore, organic substances must be introduced into the soil in advance, at least a few weeks before using the yeast feeding. In addition, at the same time as yeast, wood ash must be added to the garden bed as a source of potassium and calcium. Some yeast recipes use dairy products to help restore calcium in the soil.
Another unique property of yeast is its ability, when dissolved in water, to release special substances that enhance root formation.
Naturally, a good and strong root system of cucumbers forms a healthy and powerful aerial part, so abundant flowering and fruiting will not take long. And the gardener will be able to enjoy a lot of delicious and crispy cucumbers.
Finally, the action of yeast in the presence of a sufficient amount of organic matter in the soil is very long-lasting. For example, a single yeast dressing for cucumbers can allow plants to do without additional fertilization for a month or two. This helps to significantly save time, effort and fertilizers and cannot fail to attract the attention of gardeners.
Cooking recipes
There are several proven recipes for making yeast fertilizer. For adding under cucumbers, you can use any kind of yeast: dry and fresh, baking and alcohol.
Fresh yeast
Some recipes provide for the quick preparation of a solution for feeding, in others, the yeast must be allowed to brew for a while.
- Recipe number 1. In one liter of warm water, you need to dilute 100 g of yeast. Bring the volume of the solution to 10 liters. You can feed the cucumbers on the same day. One liter of the prepared solution is used to spill one cucumber bush. If you add about 50 g of sugar to this recipe, then it is better to leave the solution to infuse in a warm place for a day or two. The rest of the scheme is the same.
- Recipe number 2. Dissolve 100 g of yeast in one liter of warm milk... Insist for several hours, bring the volume of liquid to 10 liters and use for watering and spraying cucumbers. Instead of milk, you can use whey or any other dairy product.
From dry yeast
Usually, dry yeast feed for cucumbers is infused a little longer than fresh natural ones.
- Recipe number 3. 10 g of dry yeast and 2 tablespoons of sugar are dissolved in 10 liters of warm water and infused from several hours to several days. Before feeding the cucumbers, one liter of the infusion is diluted in five liters of water.
- Recipe number 4. In five liters of water, 1 tbsp is diluted. a spoonful of yeast, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar and 2 grams of ascorbic acid, a handful of earth is also added there. Everything is infused during the day in a warm place. When feeding, 1 liter of infusion is added to a bucket of water.
Features of feeding cucumbers with yeast
When using a yeast solution for feeding cucumbers, the following nuances must be taken into account:
- Yeast can only work in a warm environment, therefore, processing is possible only at a temperature not lower than + 10 ° С + 15 ° С. However, cucumbers also grow poorly at low temperatures, so this condition is easy to comply with.
- It is advisable not to use yeast dressing for cucumbers too often, only 2-3 times per season is enough. Optimum for the introduction of yeast solution are two periods: a week after planting seedlings in the ground (or when 4-6 leaves open) and after the first wave of fruiting.
- Since yeast actively absorbs potassium with calcium from the soil, be sure to add wood ash and crushed eggshells at the same time. A dose equal to one tablespoon under the bush will be enough.
- Yeast feeding works equally well in the greenhouse and outdoors. But in the greenhouse, due to the elevated temperatures, all processes will proceed at an accelerated rate, therefore the addition of sugar to the yeast solution when feeding cucumbers in greenhouse conditions is not necessary.
- Feeding from yeast not only increases the number of ovaries in cucumbers, but also reduces the hollowness of the fruit.
Reviews of gardeners
Let's summarize
Reviews of gardeners on the use of yeast feeding are extremely positive. This is not surprising, given the rapidity of the yeast's effects on plant development. You just need to comply with all the conditions when using this top dressing and the harvest will only delight you.
