That was long ago, thirty years ago. I've got a passion - like cabbage. All: pickled and stewed, in pies and dumplings, white and red. One day at a party tried colored pickled.
The hostess will share the secrets of how to get a crispy on the teeth of a miracle. It turns out that in the marinade you want to add a bit of oak bark, horseradish, cloves, thyme and root avens. I remember the recipe, but here's the problem: in the shops one time was cabbage, well, sometimes red, and the color in the afternoon with fire not find.
The first experience in the cultivation of cauliflower
Internet in those days was not, but the yield was -zakazat seeds in the mail that my wife and I did. After reading for a long winter everything that can be read about in magazines cabbage, looking forward to the spring. Planted in the beginning of March the first Brussels and late varieties of color "Movir", then came the turn of middle-grades, as well as broccoli, savoy, kohlrabi.
Seedlings nurtured and fed to the best of mineral fertilizers, and in May began to land on the best beds. In the autumn there was poured a ton of manure per hundred square meters and digging. Place the sun, earth and oily pretty easy.
That summer, the weather was not hot, it rained a timely and abundant. We lived all summer in the garden, loose, fed, and with the appearance of pests sprayed cherished beds tobacco extract.
In August, a rare man passed by our site, without stopping, and the most curious asked: "What's that?".
And vacation is over, and I looked to learn to work on the road from the garden, that as a yes. In my hand was a basket with savoy and cauliflower, and on top of the royal crown lay the same Movir. The staff offered to weigh it on the scales. A little under 2 kg not held.
We have prepared for the winter a lot of cans of various calibers. But most of all pleased assortment of squash, cucumbers, tomatoes and cauliflower. She crunched on the teeth, as it should be. The secret, then was known. :)
Disappointment
But the next year we were disappointed. On the same place the cabbage do not put two consecutive years. It was necessary to highlight her flower bed with soil poorer, and part of it was covered from the sun lilacs. And live all summer was not possible. The summer was hot and dry. Once a fortnight in the garden were not, and have come depressed.
On the cracked soil were sadly stunted cabbage, have colored inflorescences small, loose and dry, all of the blossom, and some blackened and withered.
Experiment
But failure did not break our determination to become a notable kapustovodami. The following year, we tried to plant cauliflower directly into the soil. Seeds before planting Used 20 minutes in very warm water, and then another 20 minutes in a light pink solution potassium permanganate, and as soon as the night was 8 degrees, seeded onto a sunny flower bed, tucked in the autumn of manure.
Once there were 4 leaf made foliar fertilizer ammophoska divorced, and two weeks later was repeated by adding urea in the bucket spoon. Do not forget to water and potassium permanganate diluted mullein, loose, slightly hill, scattered on the bed of ash and it pollinated bushes pests. Cares enough about the effort but do not regret it.
The result exceeded our first experience! It turned out that cauliflower is not necessary to plant seedlings. However, and from the old-fashioned way to give is not worth it, especially for an early harvest. It's worth to plant early maturing varieties. And later type Movir too risky to plant in the ground, because the cauliflower does not tolerate frost, and may not be able to tie a strong head.
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