How to properly feed cucumbers with yeast

When growing cucumbers in their garden, every homeowner strives to harvest them as early as possible, and cucumbers are often the first to delight gardeners in salads. Striving for a quick and bountiful harvest, gardeners use various fertilizers to strengthen the root system and speed up the ripening of the vegetables. Fertilizing cucumbers with yeast has long been popular due to its excellent composition and ease of preparation. Another valuable advantage is its safe, chemical-free composition.
Read also: Greenhouse cucumber diseases and their treatment, photos.

Advice: It is not recommended to apply such fertilizers more than three times per season.

When to start feeding?

• When your plants have 2 true leaves, feed them with a yeast mixture.
• When the ovary begins to form, strengthen the immunity and feed the plants with a yeast solution.
• After the first wave of harvest has almost come to an end, you can squeeze out a lot more cucumbers by carrying out a third yeast feeding, which will revive the bushes and give them new strength.

Why yeast?

The single-celled fungi found in yeast release compounds in a warm environment that can accelerate root growth and strengthen it. Yeast is also rich in minerals and contains vitamins essential for cucumber growth, making cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers very fond of yeast fertilizers. These vegetables grow faster, produce a bountiful harvest, and are also less susceptible to disease. How could you not use this inexpensive and wonderful product for growing vegetables? Incidentally, seedlings also respond well to yeast, becoming stronger and transplanting more easily.

Important!

• Yeast feeding cannot be combined with the simultaneous application of manure.
• Use yeast only when the soil is already warm, otherwise there will be little benefit.
• Yeast must be within its normal shelf life, whole, and not moldy. Otherwise, you will harm the harvest and ruin everything instead of benefiting it.
• Add a little ascorbic acid to the yeast solution, the amount of barren flowers will decrease (2 g of acid is enough for a pack of dry yeast).
• Do not use the solution when transplanting seedlings earlier than after 1-2 weeks, allow the bushes to take root and adapt.

Feeding with live yeast

First of all, let's pay attention to "live" yeast, which is most often used by gardeners.

Fertilizing cucumbers in a greenhouse with yeast

• 1 kg of yeast
• 5 liters of heated water (warm, not hot)

Grind the yeast, mix it with water, dissolve it, and place it in a greenhouse for a couple of days. Before use, dilute the yeast mixture with warm water 1:10 and water it, using 1 liter of fertilizer per plant. If you're growing seedlings, 1 cup of the mixture is enough for each plant.
Read: Growing cucumbers in open ground in the Moscow region.

Dry yeast feeding

 

Fertilizing cucumbers in open ground with yeast is often done using dry yeast in packets; it's simple and easy, and doesn't take up any time for a busy gardener.

Recipe 1

• 10 g dry packaged yeast
• A bucket of ten-liter warm water
• 60 g of sugar

Mix everything together, leave in a warm place, and after two hours, the working solution is ready. Then, dilute it for watering at a ratio of 1:5, and apply 1 liter to each plant. Before applying the yeast fertilizer, lightly moisten the soil under the bushes.

Recipe 2 (for a large cucumber plantation)

Take a 3-liter jar, fill it to the brim with warm water, add 100g of yeast, add half a cup of sugar, mix everything together, cover with cheesecloth, and store in a warm place. Shake occasionally. Once fermentation is complete, you can water the harvest, adding 1 cup of the mixture to each bucket of warm water. This mixture makes 12 buckets, enough for 120 cucumbers. The mixture should be used within 1-2 days; leaving it longer is pointless; it will ferment and become useless.

If you're wondering what to water your cucumbers with to speed up their growth, yeast feeding is the best option, although other folk remedies are also viable. These solutions can be used not only as a watering solution but also as a periodic spray, which will strengthen their defenses against pests and harmful microbes. You can also add herbs to enhance the benefits of the solution.

Advice: Don't try to overdo it; it's better to underfeed the cucumbers than to overfeed them with yeast, because the leaves will grow too much, and the fruit harvest will be worse.
This is interesting: Ganichkina's cultivation of cucumbers in a barrel.

Root feeding with yeast

Feeding cucumbers with yeast and ash

Be sure to apply ash along with yeast; this will help balance the soil's mineral composition. Yeast absorbs calcium and potassium from the soil during fermentation, so adding ash helps balance this deficiency. You can safely add a cup of ash to a bucket of water.

Bread sourdough

Leftover stale bread can be used to make a complete plant food supplement, just as good as yeast, and at the same time, leftover bread and other food can be put to good use.

Place the leftover bread, sour milk, and any old candied jam you have in a bucket of water. Then add a 10g packet of dry yeast and a cup of ash. Mix everything together and leave in a warm place for a week. Remember to stir daily. After a week, everything is ready; you can take it out and spread it under the plants, watering it with the remaining slurry. You can also dilute the starter 1:3 with warm water and water each plant with 250g of the solution.

Yeast feeding for plants: reviews

Oleg, Moscow region

I used yeast as a fertilizer for the first time, and I was simply delighted: the cucumbers grew strong and large, but not hollow. Incidentally, I was impressed that they withstood the heat well, and even when the humidity was high, they didn't give up. I think it was thanks to the yeast fertilizer.

Natalia, Moscow

When I started using yeast fertilizer on my tomatoes and cucumbers, following a neighbor's advice, I couldn't be happier—I save money and the results are excellent. By the way, if you don't have any ash, you can use crushed eggshells with the yeast; it works great.

Natalia, Kostroma

I read reviews about feeding cucumbers with yeast and decided to try it first on 1-2 rows. After trying it on cucumbers, I started feeding peppers, onions, tomatoes, and cabbage with yeast, and all the plants are happy. I do it this way: I feed the first time a week after planting the seedlings, then before flowering, and a third time in August. The harvest is excellent.

Elena, Moscow region

I love sourdough bread. I make it like this: I soak 500 grams of breadcrumbs in warm water. I also add herbs and a little yeast. I let it steep for a few days, and you have a wonderful nourishing solution for cucumbers, onions, and tomatoes. Incidentally, I've noticed that this type of fertilizer works wonders for cabbage—it's less susceptible to diseases, grows better, and is crispier and tastier.

Mikhail, Kyiv

When I started looking for ways to feed cucumbers and tomatoes with yeast (I'd heard about it from someone before), I found a method called a growth accelerator, and now I always use it. I'm especially happy with this fertilizer in the greenhouse; I can't find a better one. I've tried a lot of different things, but I never give up on this one; the results are excellent. I also add tobacco dust—it's a great option for a greenhouse; no nasty things can grow.

Larisa, Astrakhan

I'd like to add that when I started researching cucumber watering with yeast, and gardeners' reviews, I tried it for the first time and was simply delighted. Barren flowers were minimal, and the fruit production increased—all firm, healthy, and dense, with no empty spaces inside. Incidentally, last year my poor cucumbers were being eaten by aphids, and there were countless ants, but nothing helped. A neighbor recommended using distilled yeast, and lo and behold—I scattered it throughout the beds, the ants disappeared, and I was able to successfully combat the aphids. The cucumbers came back to life, and the vines turned green.
Read more: planting cucumbers in 5-liter bottles.

Svetlana, Zhitomir

I learned how to feed cucumbers with yeast from a gardening friend and started experimenting with it. I added nettles to the yeast solution, ashes, and bread crusts—it's simply amazing! You use up all the leftovers, and the results are amazing! I started watering my onions with this fertilizer, and they've really come back to life, turning green, the bulbs are large, and they're disease-free. My tomatoes are also responding well, and late blight seems to be less likely to affect them.