Cucumbers are the most common and popular vegetables at any time of the year. Containing a lot of useful substances (vitamins B and C, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iodine, iron), they are tasty both in fresh and canned form. A striking advantage of such a useful vegetable is its low calorie content: 130 kcal per 1 kilogram! For people suffering from excess weight, cucumber is the most recommended product, which you can consume in unlimited quantities.
Cucumber Disease: Anthracnose
Growing a high-quality crop of cucumbers is no easy task! In addition to providing the vegetable with optimal care, it is necessary to prevent the occurrence of diseases that can destroy the expected crop in an instant. Their appearance often occurs for 2 reasons: it is watering with cold water and cardinal differences in day and night temperatures.
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Preventive measures
The field of activity of anthracnose is not limited to cucumbers only, garden crops such as melons, pumpkins, watermelons fall under its influence.
Anthracnose (or copper pickle of cucumbers) is able to cut the crop by half, while destroying almost all plants; the infection can persist in the soil on plant debris and infected seeds. Therefore, to prevent anthracnose, a number of rules should be observed:- promptly remove and dispose of vegetation residues from the site after harvesting;
- observe crop rotation, that is, plant cucumbers at the previous planting site no earlier than 3 years later;
- to collect seeds exclusively from healthy plants;
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With the root form of anthracnose, a high effect is given by pouring a 1% solution of Bordeaux liquid or a 0.5% Abiga-Peak solution under the root of each plant. First, you need to moisten the soil with plenty of water, then pour a solution of the drug under each bush so that its main part falls under the root, the rest on the stem (at the rate of 0.5-1 liter per unit of garden culture). Such treatment, if necessary, can be repeated 2-3 times a week. Be sure to protect the leaves from getting the solution.
No to anthrancosis!
Anthracnose of cucumbers, the treatment of which consists not only in chemical treatment, but also in the application of preventive preventive measures, will be successfully defeated during the above measures in the complex.