White cabbage can be eaten as infresh (in salads), and in boiled, fried, as well as pickled and salted. Cultivate this wonderful plant in their own plots on the many summer residents. Further in the article we will consider how to grow medium-ripe and early cabbage.
The answer to the question of how to grow cabbage,first of all comes down to how to get strong and healthy seedlings. Seeds for this must be planted in a neutral or slightly acidic soil, well-fertilized with organic. The fact is that cabbage is very sensitive to the amount of nutrients in the soil. Early varieties are best planted on seedlings around mid-March. The middle-ripened people are in mid-April. After the first two leaves appear on the plant, picking is carried out in separate containers. Thus it is necessary to try to make so that each bush was buried in a ground up to a cotyledonous leaves.
Next, consider how to grow cabbage inopen ground. Seedlings of middle-ripening varieties will be best transferred to the ground in the period from May 10 to June 1. Early-sprouted cabbage is planted on the beds in late April or early May. When choosing a place, it is worth considering that the plant is light-loving. In the shadow of a good harvest will be impossible.
Answering the question about how to grow a gooda crop of cabbage, many experienced summer residents advise before planting seedlings on beds to fertilize the soil organic. The simplest way is to take the usual well-bred manure (4 kg per 1 m2).It is also very good to introduce mineral fertilizers into the soil. For this, the usual ash is perfect. It can simply be sprinkled before digging in a bed, or you can add a tablespoon to each hole when planting seedlings.
Cabbage is planted at a distance of about a littleless than half a meter between the rows and 20 cm between the bushes. The depth of the hole should be about 10 cm. The best planting material is considered to be bushes 15-20 cm high and with a stem thickness of about 4 mm. Overgrown seedlings will not be accepted very well. It should also be taken into account that recently planted plants do not tolerate too low temperatures. And so the seedling is best in the first time, with the danger of spring frosts covered with a film.
Mainly in the middle zone of ourThe country's methods of growing this plant are similar. But sometimes vacationers are wondering if there are any nuances when leaving in certain areas? For example, how to grow cabbage in the suburbs? Of course, success in this case will primarily depend on how well the plant variety is chosen. For the Moscow region from early ripening varieties, for example, the June and Polar ones are not bad. Of the middle-ripened - Slava-1 and Belorusskaya-455. To get a good harvest of late varieties for salting, it is worth buying Amager-611 seeds or Kharkiv winter seeds.
So, you now know how to growcabbage. Fertilize the plants two or three times per season with a solution of Mullein 1: 10, with a frequency of about once every two weeks. The first top dressing is done ten days after the seedlings are transferred to the open ground. Water cabbage two times a week.
