Cucumber Reliable, seeds Weight kg

The aroma of the cucumber from the garden increases the appetite, and in the bite, any food tastes better. Gardeners with experience, for some reason, “in the old fashioned way” use bee-pollinated varieties, believing that their taste is better and the aroma is stronger. An early bee-pollinated variety “Reliable” for such gardeners. In the open field, the 38-44 day old plant begins to bear fruit. Advantages of the variety: early, friendly return of the harvest (it manages to bear fruit before the onset of diseases), crispy, fragrant greens. Cucumbers for food, but especially good for cask pickling and home canning. Zelenets resembles an ellipse in shape, green in color, with small light stripes-dents along the entire length, very small tuberosity and black spikes. Length 10-11 cm, weight 80-120 g. The plant is long-leaved, lateral lashes of medium branching, leaf is medium rich green, moderately corrugated, flowering type mixed. If on the lashes the barren flower prevails over the female ovaries, then this may be due to the tightness in which the cucumbers sit, and the consequence is shading, or excessive watering, a lot of moisture also negatively affects the plant. Usually, gardeners in the beds let the cucumbers trail along the ground, but it is still better to tie them up, if they are put on a vertical support (trellis) or each cucumber is tied to a horizontal pipe separately, then it is easier to fight diseases, pests, and picking cucumbers is a pleasure (they do not break whips, cucumbers are visible at a glance, there will be no overgrowths). Seeds are sown in a ground warmed up to 12-15 ° C and covered with a film, until shoots appear, and then covered only if there is a threat of cold snap. Productivity up to 4.0 kg / m2. Reliable – the variety is unpretentious, tasty, well stored and transported. But there are also disadvantages: