Dissatisfied with the quantity or quality of the crop? "Garden of My Dreams" will help you learn how to cope with capricious vegetables and getting rich reserves cauliflower from his garden!
Perhaps, this plant can be described as the most capricious of all, faced an avid gardeners. Just one minor error during the landing or in the subsequent care is enough to cauliflower "became restive" and grew too loose, tight, yellow, and, as a consequence, it is not delicious.
This plant is very susceptible to weather conditions. Low temperatures can "kill" him, but the heat and cabbage, too do not like. At temperatures above 25 degrees vegetable begins to dry, which results in a momentary slowing growth and deterioration of its heads.
The deficit of moisture, light and power also bad for Kocani and future inflorescences. We strongly recommend to take the responsibility for maintaining a comfortable composition of the soil and add to it regularly ash or dolomite lime to preserve moisture. Even one day without watering enough to spoil the whole crop.
Growing cauliflower seedlings
This method is suitable and the room (greenhouse, window sill, etc.), And an open area with warming - greenhouse or manure beds. Growing cauliflower for planting includes the following procedures and recommendations:
maceration. Place the seed in the water and so keep overnight at room temperature;
food preparation. Mix humus, peat sod and pre-treating them with manganese solution, then put in boxes;
landing. Pour the seeds in the wells of a depth of 1 centimeter, then sprinkle soil and sand.
2-3 weeks after germination cauliflower can dive. First fertilizing nitrate carried out when the first shoots appear. After only 1.5 months, when the shoots will be 5 or more sheets of strong, you can move them to bed.
Growing cauliflower seedlings without
Advantages of the method - lower labor input and low risk of damage to the roots. However, it has its "contra." For example, planting seeds produced under cover, not earlier than mid-spring, and even in May, after a full thawing of the earth.
To grow from seed cauliflower, perform the following steps:
- soak them for 24 hours;
- to make the hole depth of 1 centimeter with a pitch of 30 cm or more;
- put into each hole 5-6 seeds and fill with soil;
- well-watered soil and sprinkle with sand or dry earth;
- Cover wells cut off "the tops" of plastic bottles with a throat for watering and ventilation;
- to thin out the plants after emergence, leaving about 2-3 of the strongest;
- Select 1 escape from each group at 14 days after the last thinning, and the rest to remove or transplant;
- ensure protection of plants (you can use plastic bottles) when the outside temperature is below 10 degrees at night.
To protect the cauliflower from insects, it is advisable to lay the beds improvised materials. If you want to harvest cabbages were of perfect white, cover the first head of a large sheet.
These simple measures will be enough to please yourself and loved ones with delicious cauliflower year round!