Regular consumption of cucumbers improves the functioning of many human organs. The most useful are self-grown cucumbers. For a bountiful harvest of cucumbers, proper watering, nutritious land, enough sunlight and the ability to counteract diseases and harmful insects are needed. But sometimes the latter is difficult to avoid even for those who have been growing these vegetables for years. Numerous popular recipes indicate that using iodine to process cucumbers is quite an effective and practically safe remedy.
What is useful antiseptic for cucumbers
Iodine is a reliable antiseptic used for various medical purposes, so the decision to use its properties in the garden for processing cucumbers was completely natural. This substance contains a lot of copper, which favorably affects plants, including cucumbers.
When planting and further caring for garden and garden plants, a lot of benefits are brought by pharmaceutical means: brilliant green, potassium permanganate, boric acid, ammonia, soda, vinegar, tar soap.
It is watering a solution with the addition of iodine allows for growing cucumbers to defeat such diseases as late blight and gray rot. Also, the effect of this solution has a rejuvenating effect on cucumbers, they begin to fade much later. 
Iodine is sufficiently saturated with microelements, therefore its use as a fertilizer and fertilizing restores and activates the vitality of cucumbers, increases the abundance of the crop. The fact that iodine is both affordable and effective at the same time as a wide range of exposure may cause the absence of the need for other insecticidal agents and fertilizers.
Did you know? The length of the largest cucumber, known in the world, was one meter eighteen centimeters. He managed to grow up due to favorable weather conditions in Israel.
Pre-seed treatment
Treatment of cucumbers for preventive purposes is their most effective protection against the effects of pests and diseases, which must begin with seed treatment. Iodine in this case will be useful, because they can fertilize not only the roots and leaves, but also the seeds. Seeds are treated just before sowing. It is used in the composition of a one-percent solution of sodium iodide or potassium iodide. 
In order to obtain such a seed treatment solution at home, it is necessary to dissolve iodine in water in a ratio of one to ten, respectively. Seeds need to soak and leave for about six hours. Processing seeds of cucumbers before sowing has a positive effect on their greens, and contributes to an increase in yield.
Disease protection
Cucumbers belong to plants that are quite easily susceptible to fungal diseases, such as gray mold, bacteriosis, root rot, late blight, powdery mildew. They are dangerous because, penetrating deep into the plant, can not only lead to a decrease in yield, but also cause its death.
For example, radical rot occurs as a result of the activity of fungi, which multiply at high levels of soil moisture. Its appearance becomes noticeable when the lower leaves begin to turn yellow, die off the ovary, and the roots are brown. Effective treatment will be from the disease for several days, until the clear signs of fungal infection, cucumber stalks at a height of about fifteen centimeters from the soil start to disappear by such a folk remedy as iodine solution with cool water in a ratio of one to two.
For prophylactic purposes, such treatment will destroy all fungi, if any, after the second procedure. Treatment with iodine and without the use of any chemicals can cope with other fungal diseases. But it is better not to treat, but to prevent.
Iodine as an antiseptic in combination with dairy products copes with many unpleasant moments in the garden, but most importantly - helps to avoid them. 
Important! Lactose, which is the main component of dairy products, envelops cucumber leaves with an almost imperceptible film, but because of it pathogenic causative agents have almost no chance of getting inside.
Treatment of cucumbers with iodine milk is considered to be a preventive agent with a high level of effectiveness. To this end, take one liter of milk or whey, one tablespoon of laundry soap (ground or liquid), about thirty drops of iodine, and dilute it all in ten liters of water. With this solution, cucumbers are sprayed practically during the entire growth period, once every seven to ten days. The first time they can be processed within three days after transplanting. Watering after water is allowed after that in a day.
Timely processing, which consists in spraying cucumbers with milk and iodine, can protect them from the spread of spores of all fungi that are dangerous to them. 
In addition, it is a very useful supplement for plants growing on sufficiently depleted soil. The composition of dairy products include potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus, contributing to the restoration of soil fertility.
In addition, the use of such a tool is absolutely safe for both plants and people: the fruit can be eaten without even rinsing. The only drawback of this treatment is the inability to cope with an already attacking disease.
Did you know? Turns out cucumber - fruit; and wherein - false berry (according to the classification in botany), and it is only a vegetable in cooking.
Top dressing cucumber iodine
Like all plants, cucumbers need additional feeding. For them, the most appropriate is the application of top dressing in the soil under the root, the so-called root top dressing. It is much more effective than all others due to the rapid entry of nutrients into the root system. Other types of feeding (eg, spraying) are best used as a preventive measure.
Iodine for cucumbers as a fertilizer is the most successful option of feeding, because it is not only an effective antiseptic, but in small doses even helps to speed up the metabolism, stimulate their growth, increase the abundance of the crop. In order to feed in water that is well settled, add a few drops of iodine and produce watering. It should be noted that fertilizing with the help of irrigation of cucumbers with iodine improves their taste and helps vitamin C to accumulate in the fruit.
Important! It must be remembered that the process of applying any substance is never perfect. This also applies to iodine, because its vapors in significant quantities are harmful to the human body, therefore it is not recommended to stay for a long time. in the greenhouse after processing there. Yes, and an excessive dosage of iodine during the processing of plants can cause burns and even their death.
Each novice gardener, having decided to start growing cucumbers for his own consumption or for the purpose of selling, should be well aware that taking measures to prevent diseases of these plants is much easier and easier than then dealing with diseases. Adhering to the rules for the use of such an affordable means as iodine, you can always enjoy a rich and high-quality crop of cucumbers as a result.
