Choosing the perfect variety of cucumbers for your garden is an impossible dream for plant growers. After all, in addition to taste, you need to know on what soil it is best to sow it, how quickly the fruits ripen and how suitable they are, for example, for canning. It seems that a cucumber variety close to the ideal one has actually already been bred. All that remains is to purchase seeds from the store and start sowing seedlings. Let's reveal the cards: his name is cucumber Khabar. It seems that this vegetable combines all the advantages that are possible in a cucumber sample. Now let's move on to a detailed description of the plant.
Description of the Khabar variety
This cucumber variety is included in the state register for summer cottages, household plots and small farms in the Russian Federation. Swag is resistant to cool weather, and therefore can be grown in open ground. However, if forecasts for the summer are expected to be unpredictable or unfavorable, then it is better not to risk it and plant cucumber seedlings in a greenhouse.
The Khabar variety belongs to the category:
- early ripening;
- pollinated by bees;
- universal cucumbers in terms of use.
The description of the variety fits into the following short list. This plant:
- medium branched;
- indeterminate (tall);
- mixed type of flowering;
- medium-leaved.
Description of fruits
Khabar cucumbers are usually green in color with light green stripes. As for other characteristics, the cucumber fruit:
- elongated cylindrical shape;
- has a coarsely tuberculated skin surface (the tubercles themselves are medium-dense);
- distinguished by dark pubescence;
- length - 10–11 centimeters;
- diameter - 3.5–4 centimeters;
- weighing almost 100 grams.
The taste characteristics of Khabar are simply amazing. The vegetable can be consumed both fresh and pickled, as well as canned.
The yield of the crop in question reaches four kilograms per square meter. A 90 percent yield of marketable products is ensured.
When the harvest time arrives, picking the fruits from the bush is mandatory on a daily basis.
Fruiting can continue for a long time.
Cucumbers of this type, such as Khabar, are relatively resistant to bacteriosis and downy mildew.
Agrotechnical manipulations with crops
It is interesting that Khabar cucumber seedlings are sown quite late by generally accepted standards - at the very beginning of May.It takes about three weeks (give or take a few days) to care for seedlings. Such young seedlings are transplanted into the greenhouse soil at the end of May or beginning of June. The plant should be in the four true leaf stage.
If you choose direct sowing of seeds directly into open ground, then this operation should also be planned for the border period between May and June.
The seed is immersed to a depth of 1.5–2 centimeters. The distance between adjacent furrows is half a meter. After the thinning procedure, no more than four plants remain per linear meter.
What are the features of caring for Khabar cucumbers:
- First of all, it is necessary to constantly and abundantly water the bushes with warm, settled water, and certainly pour it at the root.
- Periodically, plants should be fed with organic and mineral fertilizers.
- Caring for the Khabar cucumber in the final stage of cultivation involves daily harvesting; overripe fruits lose their presentation, properties and excellent taste. It is worth remembering that the more often you remove greens from the bush, the more new ovaries are formed.
Reviews
Consumer impressions of this cucumber are purely positive. People note that it has a lot of good properties and reaches sizes convenient for pickling and canning. When fresh, it is tender, tasty, and does not taste bitter, as is the case with other varieties of cucumbers.
Especially summer residents and farmers are satisfied with this vegetable due to its stable yield, unpretentiousness and long fruiting period.
