Chinese and Chinese cabbage firmly conquered our market, and this is understandable, as this cabbage is very tender, is not just for useful preparation for our salads body, but also the first dishes, it can be stewed, baked, used as a garnish and stuff her pies. Both types of cabbage used in the diet, it improves digestion, promotes the excretion of excess cholesterol, boosts the immune properties of the body, it is recommended in the gastro - intestinal, cardio - vascular diseases, anemia, obesity.
Both types of cabbage are precocious culture, unpretentious in the care and have high nutritional value, and these advantages allow it to grow on its own gardens.
Varieties and care
Both types of cabbage grow well in the sun, well treated and fertilized plots. If the soil at the site acidic, then fall into it you need to make lime, chalk or dolomite flour. Organic and mineral fertilizers area under this crop as well run by a fall, making rotted manure or good compost and a complete fertilizer complex digging.
Plant this crop can then cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, legumes. In the spring of the prepared area and loosen the seedlings are planted in three weeks at the usual time for any cabbage. And still possible to grow these kinds of cabbage and sowing seeds directly into open ground to the month of June, when the soil is completely warmed up.
Where - that three weeks after transplanting it must feed the complex mineral fertilizers (80 g per bucket of water), and after three weeks of mullein diluted. In the period of greatest growth of green mass is held the third top-dressing. Necessary in a bucket of water to prepare a solution of wood ash and add a tablespoon of nitrogen fertilizers.
All these kinds of cabbage require regular watering, and in hot weather it is desirable to spray water directly on the leaves.
When growing these crops is necessary to consider that the cabbage does not tolerate frost and bad Chinese develops at intense heat.
It is worth adding that the harvest Chinese cabbage can be harvested after about 35 - 50 days after the so called shoots, but the cabbage will be ready for consumption in the formation of 10 - 12 leaves.