Cucumbers are a popular vegetable. Housewives add them to salads, use them as a side dish, pickle them, and salt them. Therefore, any farmer is interested in a bountiful harvest of such a sought-after vegetable. To increase the yield of cucumber, people resort to folk signs along with the rules of planting.
Landing day
According to popular beliefs, cucumbers must be planted before the Orthodox holiday of Trinity. When planting a plant at a later date, it will not have time to go through all stages of development and will not bear fruit. The date of the holiday changes every year, so it is important to keep an eye on the calendar.
The following days are considered favorable periods for working with green vegetables:
- on the feast of St. Job. Popular wisdom recommends sowing seeds or planting sprouted plants on this day. The reason for this is the warm night;
- On the day of St. Isidore or Sidor, you can not only plant cucumbers, but also predict the amount of harvest. According to beliefs, there will be a lot of cucumbers if the day is sunny;
- Martha the Cucumber Day or Pakhomov Day will be a good time for transferring seedlings to the ground;
- During the celebration of the name day of Falaley or Philip, the favorable time for planting seeds or plants in the ground ends.
Hide from prying eyes
When all the lucky dates were met and the plants were planted, people tried to be on the alert.Even in ancient times, farmers noticed the following trick in relation to planted cucumbers. If you hide a bed with young seedlings, there will be more harvest.
People covered the seedlings from prying eyes with straw. Thin tree branches also came to the rescue. The main task was to hide the fact of the presence of the bed in the first days, but to give the plants the opportunity to bask in the rays of the sun.
Sacrifice
The first cucumber you pick always seems to be the most delicious. But popular wisdom says: the fruit must be buried in the ground. This can be done right next to the garden bed.
This tradition is considered a sacrifice to the patron saint of cucumbers, Saint Falaley. His holiday is June 2. Having buried the fruit in the ground, people expect mercy from this saint and expect a big harvest next year.
Focus on nature and moon phases
There are several tips from nature when it is worth starting cucumber seedlings:
- When flowering clusters appear on rowan and viburnum, it’s time to plant a green vegetable.
- If the yellow dandelion flowers have bloomed, you can start working with cucumbers in the garden.
- The abundance of gadflies on a plot of land promises a rich harvest.
- A lot of cones on fir trees also promises people good cucumber fruits.
Recently, climate and weather conditions have changed frequently. But nature cannot be fooled. Plants subtly sense favorable periods, so gardeners can easily and reliably navigate by them.
A good orientation will be the lunar calendar. It is known that lunar cycles affect all life on the planet. Experienced gardeners compare the lucky days of the moon and the weather forecast, which allows them to achieve a high-quality harvest of cucumbers.
People know that the full moon, as well as several days before and after it, is considered a negative period for planting a green vegetable.
Harvest time
Farmers try to harvest on the day of the holy martyr Evdokia or Avdotya the robin. In the calendar, this period was assigned to August 17th.
Usually the day is not hot. Lack of rain and sun contribute to a quick and enjoyable harvest. By collecting cucumbers on this holiday, Avdotya helped people get a high-quality harvest for the next gardening season.
Farmers consider planting cucumbers a responsible undertaking. The quantity and quality of green vegetables depends on it. Therefore, people follow both the laws of agronomy and many folk signs when working with cucumbers.
