How to do cucumbers garter?

Today, gardeners widely use the garter procedure to increase the fertility of vegetables and their resistance to diseases and pests.

Why do you need to garter cucumbers?

Gartering refers to the removal of shoots, buds and tendrils located in the upper part of the stem, used to avoid thickening of cucumbers and improve their fertility.

Advantages of the procedure

• The root system is strengthened.
• The plant receives the maximum necessary amount of nutrients.
• A large and high-quality harvest.
• It is possible to grow outside the greenhouse.
• Resistance to stress, fungi and other pests appears.
• The need of spraying is reduced.
• The duration of fruiting increases.

When should gartering be done?

Gartering should be done on young seedlings, when the plant begins to spread on the ground and has at least 6 real leaves. The time coincides with the garter and the formation of the plant.So that the slices do not immediately start to rot, it should be carried out in warm, dry, sunny weather.So that the slices do not immediately start to rot, it should be carried out in warm, dry, sunny weather.

How to garter?

The main task of gartering is the active growth of lateral shoots on which female and therefore fertile flowers are formed.

The procedure is easiest to do with Pruner – previously disinfected.
At the first gartering , the top of the stem and the flowers on the main shoot are removed.

At the next stage, ovaries, tendrils and side shoots are pinched at a height of 30-40 cm, small cucumbers are also removed.

Then the leaves and ovaries remain, only the side shoots are removed so that they do not take away all the strength for their growth.
As a result of gartering , 5-6 side shoots should remain, which must be tied to the trellis.

If the plant begins to shade its lower part when growing up, it is worth pinching a few axils of the leaves.

After such a procedure, the plant requires regular watering with warm settled water, but make sure that it does not get on the surface of the sections.