Experienced gardeners know that loves cabbage water. However, the fall in the cabbage patch can be seen from the picture cracked Kocani. This can be avoided if properly care for the beauty of white.
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That the head is not cracked
The main reason for which they appear, is excess water, soaked cabbage leaves. Provoke it by the following factors:
- untimely and excessive watering;
- temperature difference;
- rainy season;
- untimely harvesting.
Cole needs regular watering. But if you do it from time to time, moisture will be absorbed unevenly Kocani, and on to the next watering will lead to cracking. For example, the whole week in the garden soil remains dry, and on weekends it abundantly watered. Leaves will try to absorb as much water as possible, which will accelerate their development within a head of cabbage.
Internal leaves are ahead in the top growth, and this leads to the fact that the head breaks off inside. The same effect causes and heavy rain after a drought.
This will help avoid the drip irrigation. So cabbages will always have access to water and the occurrence of cracks can not be afraid. A month before harvest cabbage water is not needed. If autumn was rainy, cabbages need to protect the film.
There is another way to prevent cracking of heads. To this end, a few weeks before harvest of heads from the garden of the roots of the chop with a shovel. Since the moisture to the cabbage will be supplied in small portions, and cracks appear.
To better head filling with
When the cabbage leaf mass increases, it needs nitrogen fertilizer. This can help urea, tablespoon which is diluted in 10 liters of water. The resulting solution was poured over the bushes by the roots.
cabbage late varieties grow very slowly. If it seems like cabbages sit on the bed, and there are no changes in the beginning of autumn they should feed. For this fit the mixture of potassium sulfate (1 part) and superphosphate granules (2 parts), which distributes around each bush the rate of 20-30 g per m². After that, the bed of a good moisturizer.
You can dissolve everything in a bucket of water (superphosphate - 2 tbsp. spoons and potassium sulphate - 1 tbsp. spoon) and added urea (1 tbsp. spoon). Thus the aisles are watered composition based 1-1.5 liters per 1 bush.
That leaves no one ate
Pests who want to eat cabbage leaves, very much. This cabbage fly, and cruciferous flea beetles, butterflies and white butterfly and naked slugs.
Protect cabbage crops from insect pests will help wood ash. It is a universal means by which powdered wet cabbage leaves and the soil around them. Instead of the ash is suitable as tobacco dust.
By the end of the season to process harvest chemistry is unacceptable, suitable only organic. Therefore, if seen on the leaves of cabbages aphids, it is removed with a cloth dipped in a soap solution. Suitable as spray infusion of onion, garlic and tobacco.
Frequent visitors to the cabbage patch - slugs. They like to eat the leaves of plants. Because all chemicals banned collect slugs have to manually. To do this around the bushes laid out wet cloths or boards on which the morning gather pests. Spilling salt near the beds, you can block the slugs way to the bushes. They can not move through the soil with prickly, caustic or scorching obstacles. Therefore, the inventive gardeners are advised to spread out around the heads of cabbage pine needles or mustard powder. So slugs will not be able to get close to harvest and eat them.
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