When spring comes, you want to have a snack with a salad of fresh cucumbers. To do this, the vegetable should be planted in the greenhouse in winter. If the owner is ready to wait until summer, then you can plant the crop in the garden as soon as the snow melts. Most gardeners advocate Herman cucumbers.

General information about culture

If you don't feel like messing around with cucumbers, it's time to pay attention to a hybrid that has appeared quite recently.

Important! Cucumbers have been cultivated for over 6,000 years.

In addition to cultivated plants, wild cucumbers grow in India and China. It was there that they began to grow them in the beds as a garden crop. From there, the seeds of vegetables new to the Russian people came to Russia.

They grow in the middle lane in the form of a herbaceous vine. In Russia, the plant has been known for over 6 centuries.

Cucumbers Herman

You can grow fruit in the garden anywhere. This vegetable is unpretentious and always yields a good harvest if watered abundantly.

The cucumber Herman has a relatively young history, he is less than 100 years old. The Dutch farmers received the first fruits. In Russia, the variety was included in the register only in 2001, but today it has already won recognition from Russian gardeners.

Characteristics and features of the variety

On a note. Herman F1 is an unpretentious cucumber. Therefore, it can be eaten in the spring, if planted in a greenhouse on time.

  • The yield of the variety is high. Can be collected from one square meter up to 25 kg.
  • Fruits ripen early, in spring and early summer you can try salad. 35-40 days pass between the emergence of seedlings and the first fruits.
  • The stalk of the vegetable is thick, in length it can reach 4-5 meters. It is for this reason that it is suggested to tie it up to make it easier to harvest. If in some place the plant is bent, it will not wither and continues to grow and bear fruit.
  • The plant blooms like a woman, has a limited growth of the main shoot, as it is determinant.
  • The leaves are dark green, small. One knot can have up to 6-7 ovaries.
  • The fruit has the shape of a cylinder, reaches up to 10 cm in length. One cucumber weighs up to 70-90 grams. The color of the cucumber is dark green, with light stripes on the fruit. It is covered with a waxy coating, slightly pubescent and with white thorns.
  • The vegetable tastes sweet, there is never bitterness. Biting is accompanied by a characteristic crunch. On a tasting scale of five points, he received an five.

Important! The cucumber does not turn yellow during storage.

Landing features

First you need to prepare the seeds. Therefore, the gardener must acquire good planting material. It can be prepared in the fall, leaving one or two cucumbers for seeds. How to define quality material? You need to fill the seeds with a liter of water, putting two teaspoons of salt there. In 20 minutes the bad ones will emerge, and the good ones will sink to the bottom. It is the latter that are taken for planting, and the former can be thrown away.

Important! After such a check, the seeds must be rinsed with running water.

Planting material can easily get sick; to prevent this, you need to prepare the seeds in advance. To do this, they are placed in a solution of potassium permanganate for 20 minutes. The color of the water should be light pink. There is no need to rinse the seeds.

Next, the planting material is placed on a napkin dipped in water and soaked in a solution of fertilizers, which need a teaspoon per liter of water. A day later, the seeds are transferred to the refrigerator. There they lie until they begin to sprout. The planting material is now ready for planting in the ground.

Now it's time to prepare the ground.The landing site must meet the following criteria:

  • The soil should have a low acidity level, no more than 6.2-6.8.
  • You need to plant in the place where tomatoes, peas, beans, potatoes, cabbage grew last year. If you plant where there were zucchini, pumpkins or cucumbers, then pests cannot be avoided. It is possible to plant again in the same place only after 5 years.
  • The variety grows well in partial shade, as the leaves get burned in the sun.

You need to prepare the soil in the fall:

Planting cucumbers for seedlings

  • All that remains of the plants must be removed, or better burned to avoid the spread of infections.
  • The earth must be dug up, deepening by 30 cm, then 15 kg of humus is added. for 1 m². For the next three years, only mineral fertilizing is applied.
  • The beds must be treated with copper sulfate at the rate of 1 tbsp. l. on a bucket of water, water 1 liter per 1 m².
  • Pour a glass of dolomite flour and ash on the ground into each garden bed, add 2 tbsp. superphosphate. It remains to dig up the ground again 15 cm deep.

On a note. With the arrival of spring, you need to continue to prepare the soil.

To do this, 10 days before planting cucumbers, you need:

  1. Dig up the soil on a shovel bayonet, add a bucket of peat, manure, sawdust, a glass of ash to 1 m².
  2. Now level the beds and water with water, the temperature of which is about 60 ° C. You need to take 5 liters per 1 m². Instead, you can take a solution of sodium humate: 1 tbsp. l. 10 liters of water. You can also take potassium permanganate. You will need 1 gr. 10 liters. and for 1 m² only 3 liters are used.
  3. The site is ready - it needs to be covered with foil. The day before planting the seeds, it is removed.

Important! If the planting will be done in a greenhouse, then it also needs to be prepared in advance.

Cucumbers like loose, fertile soil that holds air, water and heat well. The soil should be neutral in acidity, about 6-7 on a scale. The culture can grow both in the garden bed and on level ground. If beds are used, then their width should be 1 m, and their height up to 25 cm.

On a note. The soil is fertilized in the fall. For this, the top layer of soil is removed by 40 cm, then rotted manure and straw are placed there.

The humus should be 20 cm high. Now it remains to fill up the soil back and leave it to wait for the seeds to be planted.

They plant cucumbers in a greenhouse as the snow melts. It is better to plant in the ground in May, when the temperature reaches 15-17 degrees during the day and does not fall below 8 ° C at night. When landing directly into the ground, you need to proceed as follows:

  • Prepare holes 2 cm deep, 20 cm apart, there should be half a meter between the rows.
  • Pour 15 grams into each hole. urea, which has a good effect on the weight of the plant, and pour half a liter of water.
  • Throw 3 seeds into the holes and cover with earth.

On a note. When planting ready-made seedlings, you can immediately remove weak plants, leaving only strong ones.

The landing actions are as follows:

  1. The seeds are planted in paper or peat cups. You need to fill them with part of the sawdust, two parts of humus and add the same amount of peat. It is not necessary to dive seedlings, as cucumbers do not tolerate transplanting well.
  2. One seed is placed in each cup at a depth of 2 cm.
  3. Before planting seedlings, the cups should stand in a warm room with a temperature of up to 25-27 ° C. It should be done so that direct sunlight does not fall on them, but it is not necessary to put them in the shade.
  4. Further, the temperature should be below 20-23 degrees, and at night 18 ° C. If the day is cloudy, then artificial lighting is turned on for 12 hours.
  5. There should always be moisture in the glass, so before the first sprout appears, you need to put a film on it.
  6. If the soil is dry, the seedlings need to be watered with a spray bottle. The water temperature is room temperature, cold water will destroy the seedlings.
  7. The plant must be hardened 10 days before planting. To do this, the seedlings are taken out into the street for 2-3 hours. Every day the walking period is increased by 1-2 hours.
  8. When the seedlings are 3 weeks old, they can be placed in the ground. The plant should already have up to 5 leaves. The holes should be dug at a distance of 30 cm from one another, half a meter should be left between the rows.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Cultivation of a variety begins with how they began to soak the seeds in water. How it's done? You need to use a damp cloth. What will the result be? Good, since all weak seedlings are thrown away, bad seeds are not even planted.

On a note. There are varieties such as Gherman and Masha, their description is similar to the variety German. Best of all, the cucumber bush grows near a special garden net, to which the stem is tied.

You can plant a plant in open ground only after it has hardened. In this case, the greenhouse should be opened only when the air temperature has risen to 17 ° С, and at night it should not be lower than 8 ° С.

You can plant a plant in open ground only after it has hardened

Planting seeds is easier, but planting seedlings is better. It all depends on the variety. If you plant Herman, then ready-made seedlings show the best growth rate. In order to improve growth, you need to look after at the stage of plant formation. It is important to create a supportive environment where the cucumbers will grow.

From time to time, the soil is required to loosen, remove weeds. This procedure should be done only between the rows; it is better to avoid such actions near each bush.

Important! The roots of cucumbers are located in the upper part of the soil, so they can be damaged when loosening.

Watering should be done regularly, preferably every day. The water should not be cold, the temperature is within 15-20 degrees.

If the weather is very hot, then you need to spray the leaves with water from a hose. Since when they start to wilt, the yield will sharply decrease. Hose watering not only moisturizes the soil, but also the air, and also reduces the bad effects of high temperatures on the fruit. Washing the leaves also removes dust from them, increasing fertility.

Pros of the German variety:

  • resistance to many diseases;
  • bushes are grown in a greenhouse, greenhouse, on open ground;
  • the plant is unpretentious;
  • growing is easy;
  • high yield, appears a month later, in early summer;
  • the cucumber tastes good;
  • there is always a harvest, there are no barren flowers;
  • you do not need to do complex manipulations for leaving;
  • great for beginners in truck farming;
  • after harvesting, the fruits do not turn yellow, are stored for a long time;
  • the hybrid is self-pollinated, bees and other insects are not needed for them;
  • the commodity figure is high, you can always make money by selling vegetables in the market;
  • high yield even when there is no particularly high-quality care;
  • there is no need to be afraid that the fruits will turn yellow on the bush, in other words, they will overripe;
  • grows well in the temperate and southern region of Russia;
  • vegetables are used for preparing salads, they can also be salted and canned.

As for the shortcomings, they also exist, although there are few of them:

For seedlings, the plant is weak, does not tolerate transplantation

  • for seedlings, the plant is weak, does not tolerate transplantation;
  • it is difficult for a seedling to take root in a new place;
  • if in May, when the cucumbers are planted, frosts suddenly hit, the plant may die, as it does not tolerate temperature fluctuations;
  • the ground must first be warmed up by adding sawdust to reduce the likelihood of seedling death.

The German variety is distinguished by a number of advantages, which are many times more than disadvantages. The bush is unpretentious, but it is afraid of the cold, so it is better to plant it in a greenhouse or greenhouse in spring, so that it can crunch with cucumbers in May. As for the preparation of seeds and soil for planting, then the actions should be coordinated.

Before planting a seedling in the ground, you need to test it for resistance; for this, the plant should be hardened in the open air in advance. This is the only way to achieve the appearance of a healthy bush. Each gardener will be satisfied, as he will receive a large harvest that he can sell or prepare for the winter.