- The cucumber plant is a shallow-rooted crop and thus it doesn’t require any deep intercultural operations.
- Prune all secondary shoots up to 5 nodes, to improve yield & fruit quality.
- Staking of plants is helpful in checking the rotting of fruits.
Farmers can get more production by keeping proper planting in cucumber crop
- Seeds are sown in furrows at a distance of 1.0-1.5 meter between plants.
- When cucumber is trained on bower fallow a spacing of 3*1 m.
- When seeds are sown at a distance of 0.5 to 75 meter with 4-6 seed/hole.
- In hilly areas, allow only two plants to grow in each hole.
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