Currently, gardeners and vegetable gardeners are trying to plant gherkins on their plots to produce delicious cucumbers. Everyone thinks that salad varieties are unsuitable for canning, so they don’t use them. But the Natasha cucumber, although a salad, is also suitable for canning and other preparations.
Hybrid characteristics
The cucumber came from crossing two different early-ripening varieties, and therefore received the f1 label. A plant pollinated by bees. It takes 45 days from planting seeds to receiving cucumbers. The bush is powerful, medium-climbing, with medium green leaves.The yield is high - one square meter of plantings yields 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 the fruit: cylindrical, the surface is spiked green. There are a small number of thorns on the skin. The flower has bright stripes that do not reach the middle of the fruit. The variety has no voids in the cross section, the taste is sweet cucumber without bitterness. The seeds are small and almost invisible. The weight of a mature fruit is from 60 to 80 grams, length is 8–12 centimeters. Intended for all types of preservation and fresh consumption. The hybrid is resistant to powdery mildew, mosaic virus and cladosporiosis.
Positive qualities of Natasha
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 yield.
- Excellent fruit taste.
- Resistance to many diseases.
- Excellent transport qualities.
- Good appearance of the fruit.
- Early ripeness.
As you can see, the cucumber is ideal for growing on a personal plot for home use and for sale. Therefore, a large number of gardeners and entrepreneurs use the hybrid.
Agricultural technology for growing a hybrid
Growing characteristics - seeds are planted in open ground when the soil is warmed to 10–12 degrees, and the air to 22 degrees during the day and 16 at night. Plant the seeds according to a pattern of 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 film.
Plant care
To obtain a high-quality harvest, plants need care during growth.It includes:
- weeding;
- watering;
- loosening;
- feeding.
Watering the plants is done in the early morning or late evening, when the sun is not yet shining brightly, 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 necessary so that weeds do not take nutrients and moisture from the cucumbers. Loosening the soil is necessary to retain moisture in the ground and allow air to reach the roots of plants. Then fungi and pests will not develop in the soil. Fertilizers are needed to nourish plants during growth. During the season, at least three fertilizings are carried out with mineral and organic fertilizers.
Methods for growing cucumbers in the garden
Amateur gardeners are inventing new methods of growing cucumbers in open ground. They plant them in barrels, let the stems run along a trellis, and make green arbors from cucumber tops. There are a huge number of growing methods; beauty depends only on the imagination of gardeners. So, with a long climbing cucumber Natasha f1, the vine can be put along a trellis pre-installed in the garden bed. Thus, borage will make an interesting fence of greenery with fruits. This method has many advantages:
- convenient to harvest;
- all leaves are visible;
- convenient to water;
- the plant does not lie on the ground, the likelihood of infection by fungus from the soil is low.
You can plant in barrels or bags of two or three plants in one container. Then the cucumbers will go down as they grow, enveloping a kind of bed, and you will get pots of greens in the beds.
For the gazebo you will need containers in the form of buckets and the hands of a craftsman. For this method, you need to make a gazebo with benches; instead of a roof, boards are placed every 20 centimeters. Buckets with plants are placed on the ground around the gazebo and, as they grow, the green cucumber tops are allowed to spread onto the roof. For this vertical growing method you need to use indeterminate varieties of cucumbers. They are not limited in growth, so greenery will grow until late autumn.
