Cabbage relates to basic truck crops. It is grown for fresh salads, and blanks for the winter. There are varieties that are well lie in the cellar until the spring, there are those that are beginning to tie cabbage in early summer. Pickled and fresh vegetables may be present in the diet all year round.
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Growing cabbage in the ground
Growing cabbage begins to fall soil preparation for planting seedlings or sowing seeds. The primer is required to make a deoxidizing agent (chalk, gypsum, dolomite flour, etc.) 2-3 cups per 1 sq. m. It is recommended to do almost the whole territory of Russia, except for the southern regions. Determine the need for liming can be by the presence of such weeds like chickweed, horse sorrel, sedge grasses, heather, buttercups, etc..
Spring digging soil enriched with organic matter (compost, humus - 8-10 kg per 1 sq. m.), wood ash scatter (2-3 cups per 1 sq. m.) and superphosphate (2 tbsp. l.).
In central Russia and regions with similar climates cabbage grown seedlings only way. This allows you to get an early harvest and summer varieties, and to have time to gather ripened cabbage for pickling and winter storage. Early varieties (The June, Dawn F1, F1 Transfer and so on.) Can be planted in the ground in early to mid-May. Mid-grade (Glory, Present, sugar crunch Atriya etc.) Are planted in late May (3 decade), and late (Megatone, Moscow, and so on. N.) Can be planted in early June.
Scheme planting cabbage depends on ripening:
- 30-35h40-50 cm - for early;
- 50x50 cm - is middle;
- Among the bushes late varieties leave at least 60-70 cm.
The best precursors for cabbage plantation think carrots, beans, onions, potatoes and tomatoes. Move a cabbage need each year, and the old place return in 4-5 years.
In the first 2 weeks after planting seedlings are watered daily by 0.5-1 liters under a bush. With the growth and depending on rainfall 1 watered once a week for 10-12 liters per plant 1, or more frequently, reducing the proportion of moisture. In hot dry weather is carried out irrigation with warm water in the morning or in the evening.
fertilizing cabbage
With the growth of cabbage requires more nutrients. Fully meet its needs help regular fertilizing: for late varieties carried out at least 4-5 such events in the season.
During the socket forming introduced under nitrogen fertilizers cabbage (herbal infusions, mineral granules of urea, ammonium nitrate). For early varieties spend only 1 dressing prior to the formation of head. Late harvest can be carried out in their first 1-1.5 months (every 2 weeks). Under one plant poured 0.5-1 liters of irrigation water with dissolved fertilizer (herbal tinctures taking 1 liter to 10 liters of water, mullein diluted 1:10 and mineral formulations are prepared according to instructions).
As soon as the central rosette leaves begin to curl, starting to head out, nitrogen fertilization should be stopped. During the growth Vilkov cabbage fed phosphorus-potassium mixtures and preparations:
- 1 tbsp. l superphosphate;
- 1 h. l. potassium sulfate.
Said quantity was dissolved in 10 L of water and poured over 1 liter of cabbage at the bush. Such feeding is carried out 15-20 days, stopping approximately 2 weeks prior to harvest.
Wood ash rich in minerals and is used as a feeding and protection from pests (slugs, aphids, flea beetles). To enrich the soil with salts of potassium and phosphorus and ash are screened with irrigation water is introduced as a suspension (2-3 handful stir in 10 liters of water and pour on 1 liter per bush). Fed every 2 weeks.
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