Preparing a hothouse, Azdamichy 2012. Падрыхтоўка парніку, Аздамічы 2012 год.
Cucumbers are a key element of the diet in Belarus and the surrounding region and an important private-farming export from Belarus to the markets in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Many families have constructed the frames for cucumber hothouses in their yards. Each spring the (extended) family methodically laps narrow sections of plastic sheeting to replace the previous year’s covering. The recovered hothouses are then planted with the cucumber seedlings which have been forced in smaller hothouses during the cold days and nights of late March.
