Bread feeding for cucumbers: how to cook and fertilize crops
Cucumbers are quite demanding on a complete diet. This need is especially growing with the onset of flowering, when the formation of inflorescences occurs simultaneously, ovaries and fruit ripening. At this time, many gardeners use to fertilize the beds of organic fertilizers from food waste, including leftover bread. Feeding cucumbers with bread is a simple and quite effective way to increase crop yields without extra costs..
Why do you need it
Liquid feeding of bread, made independently from the remains of the product, is a great alternative to expensive drugs, which includes yeast. Yeast components are present in almost all growth stimulants, which is why these mixtures and solutions are so effective. It is yeast that affects the active growth of plants in the root system and green mass. Bread leaven is a source of nutrients and essential trace elements for plant development.
With proper use, the effect of fertilization on garden crops, which include cucumbers, huge:
- it accelerates the vegetative process - when used, cucumbers ripen faster, which allows you to get earlier harvests;
- contributes to abundant and long-lasting flowering - if the plantings at this time to ensure full pollination, then cucumber whips will be literally hung with a huge number of constantly appearing ovaries and ripe fruit;
- yeast fungi, contained in the feed, improve soil quality, activating and supporting the vital microflora in it;
- bread fertilizer accelerates decomposition and enhances the effect of previously applied organic matter: manure, humus, manure;
- helps plants absorb and absorb nutrients from the soil;
- restores and strengthens the weak, lag behind in plant growth.
Based on personal experience, many gardeners recommend feeding cucumbers sourdough, made from black bread. Better, if it is not simple bread, and rye with malt, as malt extract will accelerate the fermentation of yeast, will make it more nutritious.
Video "Method description"
You will learn from the video, how the method of bread feeding works.
How to cook
You can use rye bread of any freshness to make sourdough bread. Of course, buying fresh bread specifically for fertilizer is not very economical, so it is easier to use leftovers: crackers, crust. For example, rusks can be harvested throughout the winter, and with the onset of the summer season to use fertilizers.
There are no strictly defined proportions in the preparation of fertilizers, so every gardener does it in his own way. Someone is soaking 1 loaf of bread in a bucket of water, and others fill the bucket with bread more than half. It's not that important, since the finished product is still diluted with water, and if you don't have it very concentrated, then just add less water.
Next we will consider in more detail, how to make bread feeding at home:
- Prepare a standard bucket (8-10 l), oppression (you can use a lid or plate, corresponding in diameter to the bucket), warm water, and, actually, stale rye bread.
- Fill the bucket half full with bread or on 2/3, and press it with a wick - the wick will not allow the bread to float and prevent it from mold.
- Pour into a bucket of warm water as follows, so that the liquid completely covers the bread.
- Put the bucket in a warm place (barn, greenhouse) - can be left outside in summer, just need to cover.
- The fermentation time of the leaven is 3-7 days depending on the weather - in the hot summer fermentation process is faster. The readiness of the fertilizer can be judged by the foam on the surface of the liquid - after the fermentation process, the foam is no longer formed.
- When the yeast is ready, bread waste is squeezed, filtered, diluted with water in proportion 1:3 - if there were few bread crusts, and the infusion turned out weak, it can be diluted in half with water. That's it - useful natural fertilizer for cucumbers is ready.
How to fertilize
Bread fertilizer for cucumbers is applied by watering the roots. It is recommended to start watering as standard, when the first ovaries begin to appear on the scab - at this time there is a special need for additional nutrition. However, if your cucumbers grow weak, which often happens on depleted soils, or you just want to get a very high yield, then the first watering can be carried out at the seedling stage, when the whips appear 4-5 real leaves.
Of course, bread sourdough can not cause much harm, but on acidic soils, as well as too frequent use, it can slightly increase the acidity of the soil. Watering is carried out at the rate 0,5 l of liquid on 1 plant (whip).
Yeast leaven is loved not only by cucumbers, but also eggplant, pepper, tomatoes, fruit and berry crops, and even flowers. Use the remnants of the solution to water these plants, and the harvest will surprise you. You will notice after the first watering, that the bushes became stronger, and the tops are more magnificent. Feeding during flowering increases the formation of female flowers, which has a positive effect on the amount of harvest. Use stale bread leftovers and enjoy growing your favorite vegetables!
Video "How to feed"
You will learn from the video, what and how else you can feed cucumbers.
