Feeding cucumbers with yeast is the most common ingredient in traditional medicine recipes. Yeast stimulates plant development, prevents many diseases and keeps pests away from the beds. Their effect is enhanced in combination with other ingredients.
Timing for adding a valuable component
Yeasts are single-celled microorganisms of fungal origin. Is it possible to feed cucumbers with them? Yeast as a fertilizer for cucumbers allows you to activate beneficial bacteria in the soil and promote their reproduction. The growth of plant roots accelerates, receiving natural nutrition, they become strong, the ability to fight many diseases increases, and the size of the crop increases.
Yeast feeding for cucumbers grown in open beds is applied 2-3 times during the entire growing season.
- The first time fertilizing cucumbers in open ground is carried out when the first pair of leaves unfold on the sprout. Feeding seedlings can be carried out in combination with yeast and other components.
- The second time, it is advisable to apply fertilizer before flowering begins, so that many strong ovaries are formed.
- The last time fertilizer is applied is after the first mass harvest. The composition will allow the plant to gain strength again for the subsequent formation of fruits.
The main recommendation of agronomists and experienced gardeners is: “Follow the dosage of the components. Do not overdo it, as this can lead to the development of green mass rather than fruit. It’s better not to feed a vegetable crop than to overfeed it.” It is also important to alternately use organic fertilizers with mineral fertilizers.
In a polycarbonate greenhouse or hotbed, cucumbers require feeding almost every week, three of which can be replaced with compounds containing yeast. In greenhouse conditions, processing cucumbers with a composition of yeast, bread and barley sourdough is popular. Fertilizing cucumbers in a greenhouse is carried out 10-14 days after the seedlings are planted, before flowering begins and after the first massive harvest is harvested.
Important Features
How to fertilize cucumber beds with compounds based on yeast solution? When using yeast feeding, you must follow and follow some recommendations:
- Watering cucumbers with yeast is carried out only in warm, dry weather (air temperature above 16 degrees);
- Do not overuse the yeast solution; the best option is to apply it two or three times;
- it is imperative to maintain concentration, since not only a deficiency, but also an excess of elements can lead to a poor harvest;
- advice: “before watering or spraying, dilute the resulting solution with water”;
- effectiveness is manifested when grown in an open or closed area, but when using yeast for cucumbers in a greenhouse, it is not necessary to add sugar;
- Foliar and root treatment is allowed.
Numerous positive reviews note the improvement in the condition of vegetable beds after home-made yeast compositions. “Every year I treat the beds of peppers, cucumbers and other vegetable crops with yeast compounds. While experimenting, I add other components.
I like the result best after using it together with wood ash, chicken droppings and whey.”
Tips and videos from experienced gardener Yulia Minyaeva, who lives in the city of Serpukhov, are very popular. Every year she tries out many new methods of planting and processing vegetable crops. She believes that the most useful fertilizer for cucumbers is yeast mash. It is better to take dry yeast; the recipe also involves adding sugar and warm water.
Recipe options
There are several options for feeding cucumbers with yeast. You can use the resulting solution for foliar spraying, or water the plant at the root.
The most important stage is the application of fertilizers during the flowering period of cucumbers and during fruiting. This time is the main time for laying the foundation for the future harvest. Timely and properly prepared fertilizing will allow the formation of ovaries that will not fall off and will allow the formation of smooth, crisp cucumbers.
In order for fertilizing with yeast to only benefit the development of vegetables, you need to know how to prepare the composition. To do this, you just need to follow the advice of the selected recipe.
- In order for the fruits to develop and grow faster, it is best to use dry yeast compositions. One sachet of yeast powder weighing 10 g should be diluted in warm water (5 l). 100 g of sugar should be poured into the solution and left to ferment in a dark place. Each bush should be watered at the root with the resulting solution. Be sure, before watering the cucumbers, the solution is diluted with water in a proportion of 200 ml per bucket of water.
Watering cucumbers with yeast is best done in the evening, in calm, dry weather. The composition is equally suitable for cucumbers growing in closed or open ground.
- Dry yeast for feeding goes well with ascorbic acid. A pack of dry yeast is dissolved in warm water and only 2 g of ascorbic acid is added. Such a composition will not only activate the formation of ovaries, but will also significantly reduce the number of barren flowers.
To prepare nutritional supplements, not only dry yeast is used, but also ordinary culinary pressed, live yeast.
- 12 days after planting the seedlings, it is useful to apply the following composition to the prepared area. Take 500 g of pressed yeast, add 200 g of sugar and pour 10 liters of hot water. Before watering, the resulting solution is diluted with water (1:5) and poured under the root, calculating 500 ml for each.
- The combination of yeast with bread is especially useful for cucumbers grown in a greenhouse. You will need to crumble the bread, add water and add 100 g of sugar. Any yeast can be used. Dry will require 5 g, pressed - 100 g.The fertilizer will be ready for use in three days. After infusion, the mixture is filtered and diluted with water (1:5). The solution can not only be watered at the root, but also foliar spraying.
How to fertilize correctly? It is important to know that yeast enriches the soil with potassium and nitrogen, but at the same time reduces the calcium content. Therefore, it is useful to accompany the preparation by adding eggshells and ash.
- You can prepare yeast fertilizer together with wood ash. The composition will enrich the soil with microelements. Raw yeast 100 g or 10 g of dry powder is diluted with three liters of water. Wood ash will require 200 g per 5 liters of water. Before processing, you need to mix a liter of yeast solution with 500 ml of ash water and strain. It is better to use fertilizer for watering at the roots.
- The following composition for feeding cucumbers is also considered good. Pieces of bread or crackers are placed in a bucket, filled with water and manure is added. Leave the mixture to infuse for a week. Before watering, dilute with water: a liter of the resulting solution is useful for a bucket of water. The diluted components do not contain dangerous concentrations of substances that can cause burns to the root system of the plant.
- In order to prepare a composition from eggshells and yeast, you need to infuse each of the components. The shells of 5-6 eggs are crushed, pour 500 ml of boiling water and cover with a lid. You need to insist for a week. The resulting infusion is mixed with yeast water. Before watering, it is recommended to dilute the solution with water in a ratio of 1:5.
These compositions can even be used for cucumber seedlings. Only the amount of solution should be reduced.
Reviews from experienced gardeners who water their cucumber beds with yeast solutions are extremely positive. Everyone notes the active growth of plants that rarely get sick, the formation of a large number of fruits with excellent taste.
