Use baking soda and enjoy great cucumber harvest

Do you love cucumbers? Well, you do of course, but would you like to increase your harvest? Who would not, right? If you take care of cucumbers properly and provide them with the necessary nutrients you can significantly increase your harvest. Cucumber produces fruit from spring to autumn, and right now the “cucumber season” is in full swing and some of you probably already have new cucumbers. There are many different tricks to help cucumber plants to produce more fruit. An excellent option is baking soda. Yes, that is true and here is how to use baking soda and harvest throughout the entire season.

Baking soda has been used in many different ways

In addition to an excellent cleaning agent, baking soda is also used in gardens because it offers excellent antibacterial properties, it is safe to use and it is environment friendly but yet, it literally kills many plant diseases. Baking soda is an excellent prevention measure against powdery mildew, which often attacks cucumbers. It is also works well against aphids or mites and it does not harm plants or beneficial insects.

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Great prevention

Various mixtures containing baking soda are often used as a preventive measure. However, if a particular disease has developed too much, spraying will no longer be able to stop it. Anyway, here are instructions how you can make your own baking soda spray. It is very easy indeed.

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Make you own baking soda spray mixture

You need the following ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons of baking soda,
• 10 litres of warm water,
• 50 grams of laundry soap.

Pour 10 litres of warm water into a bucket. Get a glass and mix baking soda with water. Add grated soap into the mixture. Wait until all ingredients have dissolved, mix well and pour it into the bucket and stir well. Pour the mixture in a spray bottle. Spray cucumbers every 14 days. A good idea is to spray after rain, when cucumbers are more susceptible to fungal attacks. Spraying should be done in the morning or evening to prevent leaf burning.

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