Squash Iskander: features of the variety, reviews

Zucchini - a vegetable useful and very unpretentious. He is low-calorie, for which he is loved by nutritionists, and is rich in vitamins and trace elements. Trouble with the tavern is very small, so it can be found absolutely in any garden. Increasingly widespread hybrid high-yielding varieties, several bushes which can provide twists for the whole winter. The first place among such varieties is occupied by squash Iskander.

Characteristic of the variety

This Dutch early-maturing hybrid is able to tie fruits at low temperatures. Squash Iskander has a thin waxy skin with barely perceptible specks of light green color. The flesh is creamy white and tender. The weight of one fetus averages a half a kilogram. Its length is on the average 18 centimeters, the shape is cylindrical. Squash Iskander F1 has a powerful upright compact shrub with a peduncle in 15-20 centimeters.

Advantages of the variety

All truck farmers in their responses note the excellent yield of this vegetable marrow. One bush can give up to 17 kilograms. A long period of fruiting, which ends with the arrival of the first frost, also provides the grade first among the "associates".

The early maturation period (from germination to maturity should be slightly more painful than 40 days) allows you to harvest the first harvest already at the end of spring or at the very beginning of summer.

Squash Iskander is resistant to diseases such as powdery mildew and anthracosis.

Planting of courgettes

Get a squash bush by sowing seeds or seedlings. The way of planting depends on the warmth of the climate and how soon one wants to get the first harvest. Soil zucchini Iskander F1 prefers light. Acidic soils are considered an unsuitable condition, as well as the presence of closely located groundwater.

Good predecessors will be potatoes, cabbage, radish, onions, legumes. You should not plant zucchini where last year any vegetables of the pumpkin family.

If the seeds are sown directly into the soil, then it should be pre-prepared, make the holes at a minimum of 60 centimeters from each other, add compost or humus to the wells and then plant the seeds. They need to be soaked in warm water before piquing. You can do the procedure in late March or early April.

On average, a month before planting the seeds of the plant in the soil, you can start growing squash Iskander on your own. To do this, pots or disposable cups should be placed peat and humus, a little all this watered and stuck no deeper than 3 centimeters seeds. Sprinkled seedlings no more often than once in ten days. When transplanting, seedlings should be placed in the ground together with an earthen lump from the pot, since all pumpkin plants do not tolerate the moment when their roots are disturbing.

Care for courgettes

So, there is no difficulty in planting zucchini Iskander. Cultivation of the variety will be successful if it is proper to take care of the plant. If there is a need or desire to fertilize the bushes, it is worth remembering that the fertilizer with chlorine zucchini does not like. Two additional fertilizing during the season (in the period of flowering and growth of fruits) will promote a significant quantitative increase in yield. When fruits are formed, the bushes respond well to 50 grams of potassium salt dissolved in a liter of water.

Squash Iskander, like any other variety, loves loose, well-penetrating moisture and heat soil. How often to do the procedure depends on the type of soil in each particular case. For example, loamy soils tend to harden, and the loosening procedure will have to be done more often.

The testimonies indicate that the yield of zucchini can be increased by spraying the plant during the flowering period with sugar solution and boric acid. This will attract insects, improve pollination, and as a result will increase the amount of harvest.

How to water a vegetable marrow?

To water the vegetable marrow is necessary immediately after planting, whether it be seeds or seedlings, during flowering and in the case of mass formation of fruits. This plant has a powerful root system, which means that it needs a lot of watering: at least 20 liters of water per m².

Excess moisture can cause rotting of the zucchini tip. But an immature fruit can be saved by cutting the rot to a healthy flesh and cauterizing the place of the cut with fire. Start to rot the tip can also because of the fact that after fertilization the flower did not fall off.

When to harvest? How do you know that the zucchini is ripe?

It is clear that each variety reaches maturity at different times. Reviews note that after 20 days after planting the first harvest can already be collected. If there is an intention to store zucchini for a while, then it should be left to sing longer. Hard to touch peel zucchini and a dull sound when tapping are evidence of the final maturity of the fetus. This zucchini can be stored in the basement for up to five months. It is very important zucchini not to overexpose. Otherwise, he will lose all consumer properties.

Squash Iskander, reviews provoking among experienced truck farmers only positive, have well proved themselves in the domestic market, although not so long ago were acclimatized in Krasnodar. They please everyone with early maturity, tender taste and excellent yield.