Did you know that just adding something to cucumber can double its yield in just one week? Let’s find out what to add once a month for lush cucumber growth!

If you like cucumber and want to grow it, it takes little to get a magnificent yield from the plant. By adding simple school chalk , you can double the growth  and get many more cucumbers to consume fresh. Let’s find out how to use this product!

What is plaster used for?

Cucumbers can be grown outdoors or in greenhouses, but regardless of the choice, they need a foundational feed such as that provided by chalk. In fact, this substance makes the soil even more suitable for growing vegetables,  neutralizes acidity and improves soil structure .

In its composition, gypsum contains substances useful for nourishing vegetables and therefore also cucumbers, such as calcium, a substance that cucumbers require in large quantities to grow and develop.

Therefore, the high source of calcium contained in gypsum is essential to improve the quantity and quality of the crop. Especially during fruit formation, if the calcium needed to make them grow luxuriantly is lacking, rot problems can occur and the crop could shrink and spoil.

Chalk  is already present naturally in the soil,  but sometimes it is not enough to provide cucumbers with all the calcium necessary to ensure magnificent growth. To make up for this deficiency, you can water cucumbers and other vegetables with a DIY gypsum fertilizer, following a simple procedure. Here’s how.

How to prepare gypsum fertilizer.

To prepare gypsum fertilizer you need some ingredients, here they are:

• 200 grams of plaster;
• 10 liters of warm water.

Gypsum must be ground before use, a procedure necessary to completely dissolve the substance in water and  cause it to distribute evenly in the soil . In addition to calcium, dissolved gypsum will also provide plants with very important substances such as silicon and magnesium, which are essential for healthy growth.

To grind the chalk, place it in a  zip-top plastic bag  and place it on a cutting board. Using a wooden hammer or meat mallet, press the chalk hard many times until it is reduced to powder.

Once you have obtained the  chalk powder, pour it into the warm water  that you have put in a container. You can do this by reducing the doses, taking into account that  you need 50 grams of chalk for every 2.5 liters of warm water.

How to use fertilizer for cucumber.

Once the chalk powder is placed in warm water, mix the solution carefully and let it sit for 10 minutes. After time,  stir again and let sit for another ten minutes . At this point, put the liquid obtained in the watering can and water the cucumber plants, making sure that the product reaches the soil near the plant in the best of cases.

Water the cucumbers with this solution once  a month , preferably  at night , and you will see that the harvest will be more abundant, even  double after just one week .

The nutrients contained in the chalk will immediately give it its effectiveness and will allow you to grow many other vegetables in the best possible way, to always have  abundant harvests and healthy products  to bring to the table. Whether you use this fertilizer on cucumbers grown outdoors or in greenhouses, you can get rid of the gray rot that prevents them from growing healthy.

If you properly water the cucumbers with chalk you will give these plants the necessary nutrition to develop and multiply, since the  soil is made better for this crop . At the same time, you should know that when planting chalk protects cucumbers from a large number of pests, thus keeping them away from the plants and preserving them from dangerous attacks.