Cucumbers love regular milk. How to dose it for seedlings

Growing cucumbers is one of the most popular activities for many gardeners. Growing your own snake cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, or salad cucumbers is fun and guarantees success in the form of great fruit. In any case, growing cucumbers presents several challenges right from the start. The seedlings need to be cared for and fertilized properly. Of course, you can use many fertilizers sold in stores, but you can also find the right products at home to help your cucumbers. For example, ordinary milk.

How to prepare fertilizer from milk?

It’s not complicated at all, we only need a few ingredients. Specifically, it will be:

• 500 ml of milk,
• 10 liters of water,
• 10 drops of iodine.

First, we mixed the milk and iodine. Then we poured the mixture into 10 liters of water and stirred it thoroughly. We then used the fertilizer on the seedlings. But first, we lightly watered the soil around them with ordinary settled water. Each seedling received 200 ml of fertilizer. It can also be used on shrubs, but in this case, it is necessary to add more, ideally 500 ml to each plant.

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How does the solution help cucumbers?

It provides them with the necessary nutrients that cucumbers undoubtedly need for proper growth and development. Among other things, cucumbers also receive certain trace elements. Specifically, the solution saturates cucumbers primarily with potassium, magnesium, and calcium. Other elements include manganese, iron, and copper.

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Milk is completely safe for plants

And why wouldn’t it be, when we use it too? Cucumber plants need a lot of nitrogen, especially when producing fruit. Milk provides this without any problems. Among other things, it also normalizes the pH of the soil. The results will certainly not be long in coming. Fertilizing with milk will undoubtedly bring a very solid harvest. It is definitely worth trying. Milk is not expensive.

Sources of information: Author, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/ 328008829_Evaluation_of_natural_fertilizer_extracted_from_expired_dairy_products_as_a_soil_amendment

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