Unusual fertilizer for cucumbers: folk advice

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Cucumbers love when they are carefully cared for: timely watering, loosen the ground, destroy weeds, nourish. One unusual top dressing is to fertilize the soil with peas.

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To provide cucumbers with nitrogen and other necessary trace elements, it is enough to sprinkle 1 tablespoon under each bush. l of peas Of course, these should be halves or smaller pieces so that the peas cannot germinate. You can do this immediately when planting seedlings in open ground, or you can do it later, when the cucumbers will bear fruit. In this case, pits or ditches for pea fertilizing should be made not close to the bush, so as not to damage the roots.

Experienced gardeners say that such fertilizing even distracts pests from the cucumber bush: they dig their paths to an unexpected find – chopped and shelled peas.