Many people are engaged in growing cucumbers. Vegetables can be planted both in greenhouses and in open ground conditions. It is important not only to select the optimal place for planting, but also to take into account the proximity of cucumbers to other crops. In today’s article, we will find out what can be planted with cucumbers in a greenhouse and open field.
Cucumber compatibility
Cucumber is a hybrid that first appeared on the territory of Central Asia. The plant belongs to the gourd family. In the course of growth, the cucumber demonstrates the characteristic properties of an ordinary cucumber. Readiness for the use of culture is determined by a change in its color. The taste of the plant is more like a ripe melon. While this original vegetable is not yet ripe, it is often used to prepare delicious salads. The harvest, which has not yet had time to fully ripen, can be safely preserved for the winter in the form of fragrant pickles. Ripe fruit, characterized by unobtrusive sweetness, can be used as an unusual dessert. You can make jam from it.
Many summer residents are interested in how compatible an ordinary cucumber in a garden or in a greenhouse is with an unusual cucumber. This culture can be planted without unnecessary worries along with a green vegetable. Many gardeners-gardeners manage the territories of their greenhouses in this way. So, on one side you can place ordinary cucumber lashes, and on the second – bushes of the original cucumber.
It is worth noting that caring for the latter is not much different from caring for traditional cucumbers.
Landing next to a watermelon
When wondering if it is possible to plant cucumbers next to watermelons or melons, it is worth remembering that all these crops belong to the pumpkin family, so they can grow and develop next to each other. However, you need to be prepared for the fact that certain problems may arise. Most often, crops begin to suffer from an insufficient amount of nutrients and trace elements received. In addition, plantings can be attacked by the same pests. Crop diseases can also develop at the same time. Due to cross-pollination, the taste characteristics of fruits can not undergo the best changes, which is also important to consider.
The neighborhood of cucumbers and watermelons in a greenhouse is undesirable. In open ground, these popular crops are not forbidden to be planted together. Moreover, many gardeners after that get a very rich and good harvest. But still it is recommended to select for the plants in question not neighboring beds, but other places on the site.
Can you plant with tomatoes?
This question is the most frequently asked by gardeners. The fact is that tomatoes, like cucumbers, are very popular vegetables that summer residents grow in the beds most often. In general, planting cucumbers next to tomatoes is quite possible. But, despite this, it is still better not to grow these crops on the same bed in the same soil or in the same greenhouse. The undesirability of such a neighborhood is due to the fact that the plants in question require different conditions for growth and development.
The neighborhood of tomatoes and cucumbers is not recommended, because tomatoes feel comfortable against the background of dry air and moderate temperatures. Cucumbers, on the other hand, need higher temperatures, while air humidity should also be increased. Tomatoes require regular ventilation of the greenhouse, and cucumbers do not tolerate cold drafts. Tomatoes cannot be left without high-quality and effective feeding compounds, but green vegetables do not need abundant feeding (only organic matter is enough).
Based on completely different comfortable growing conditions, it will be simply impossible to keep both cucumbers and tomatoes in the same greenhouse. The summer resident will have to make a lot of efforts so that such different cultures do not begin to interfere with each other’s growth. It is recommended to plant cucumbers and tomatoes in different greenhouses. If this method cannot be implemented, it is necessary to leave a sufficient distance between these plants in the greenhouse.
Joint planting with onions and garlic
Different gardeners have different attitudes towards the neighborhood of a green vegetable with onions or garlic. According to many summer residents, there will definitely not be any benefit from the proximity to garlic cucumbers. Moreover, there is an opinion that because of such a neighborhood, green fruits slow down their normal growth.
However, there are a lot of gardeners who believe that garlic relieves cucumber lashes from dangerous angular spotting of foliage (bacteriosis), aphids, and harmful bears. It can be said that all the opinions reflected are correct. But to achieve the most favorable and positive result, garlic should not be planted too close to cucumbers. It is very important to maintain an optimal distance of at least half a meter.
Onions are another popular crop that works well with cucumbers. A vegetable can be planted without fear next to a green plant. At the same time, a small free distance should be left between landings. The fact is that a month before harvesting the onion crop, a significant reduction in watering is required, which may cause problems with watering green plants. The two crops in question should be planted in adjacent beds, since it will be much easier and more convenient to care for them.
Neighborhood with other vegetables in the garden
There are many other popular crops that gardeners most often plant in greenhouses or outdoors. Consider how cucumbers coexist with other popular plants.
Pepper
A lot of summer residents are asking a reasonable question of whether it is possible to plant cucumbers along with pepper. It should be borne in mind that such a combination is not the easiest and most malleable. On the one hand, these plants need the same climatic conditions and do not tolerate drafts, but at the same time they are related, which is why they compete in nutrition, and they need different environments for growth.
If, nevertheless, it is decided to place the crops in question in one greenhouse, then it is advisable to leave the largest possible free distance between them.
Courgettes
Both cucumbers and zucchini come from the same gourd family, so they need roughly the same conditions for keeping. However, care must be taken to ensure that the leaf plates of zucchini do not shade the cucumber foliage too much. At the same time, all plants should have enough fertilizers and top dressings. It should be borne in mind that the often considered neighborhood option ends with a meager harvest of both cucumbers and zucchini. In rare cases, the fruits are completely absent, since there is a violation of the natural process of pollination. In addition, crops from the same family most often suffer from the same diseases and pests.
Cabbage
Cruciferous crops coexist perfectly with cucumbers, so they can be planted nearby not only in an open ground layer, but also in greenhouse walls. Both types of plants need abundant watering, so it will be much easier to care for them together.
Corn
Corn culture without problems coexists with cucumbers. Due to its close location, cucumber yields can increase markedly. The corn will act as a real support for the green whips that can be tied to the stems. In addition, the culture in question effectively protects cucumbers from both the wind and the too aggressive sun. The rhizomes of plants do not compete in any way, but sometimes cucumbers may lack nitrogen.
Carrots
Favorable neighbor for cucumbers. Moreover, even the carrot itself can be planted in the place where cucumbers grew 1-2 years ago.
Peas
Planting peas next to cucumbers is not only possible, but necessary. Green crops can also be safely planted next to beans and beans. Under such conditions, cucumbers show very good fruiting. It should be borne in mind that legumes actively saturate the soil mixture with nitrogen, therefore it is especially useful and effective to plant them around the entire perimeter of cucumber beds or in their middle.
Having collected a pea crop, it is recommended to carefully cut the plants, leaving the rhizomes in the soil: this will improve the fruiting performance.
Pumpkin
The neighborhood of cucumbers and pumpkins is undesirable, although it is quite permitted. The fact is that very often both pumpkins and a green vegetable fall ill with a dangerous cucumber mosaic. This type of virus is malicious, practically untreatable. If the summer resident nevertheless decided to plant cucumbers and pumpkins together, then between them it will be necessary to leave an allowable distance of at least 5 meters.
Basil
Basil is a plant that is strongly discouraged from being planted next to cucumbers. First of all, it concerns greenhouse conditions. Most often, the problems of such a neighborhood arise due to the struggle of crops for the necessary nutrients and sufficient lighting.
Parsley
The neighborhood of cucumbers with parsley and other popular herbs is acceptable. Instead of parsley, it is allowed to plant a few fresh dill bushes. The specified greens will have a positive effect on the fruiting of cucumbers, will not harm them.
In addition, a neighbor in the form of parsley is able to effectively repel harmful insects.
Potato
Every summer resident should know that potatoes are an undesirable neighbor for cucumbers, despite the fact that these plants are distantly related. Both of these crops are susceptible to such serious diseases as late blight, which can catastrophically reduce yields. In addition, during the treatment of potato plantings with chemicals, the latter may also appear on cucumbers. That is why it is strongly not recommended to plant these vegetables in the same garden.
Eggplant
These plants, like cucumbers, are thermophilic, but they need drier air. Eggplants do not like unnecessary spraying, they do not like shading, therefore they are unlikely to be able to coexist in the same greenhouse with green vegetables. If there is a desire, plants can be seated, making the largest possible indent from each other. It is allowed to make a small partition.
Strawberries
Planting cucumbers with strawberries is allowed. But in the beds where cucumbers were previously grown, it is strongly not recommended to plant a berry.
Sunflower
Often considered popular vegetables are planted near handsome sunflowers. A dense stem of a herbal culture can both hold and direct whips with greens of absolutely any size.
If you take a responsible approach to the selection of neighboring crops for cucumbers, then you can get a rich and healthy harvest, and the plants themselves will not have to be endlessly treated for dangerous diseases and saved by adding missing nutrients.
