Why You Should Remove Bottom Leaves From Cabbage: 3 Reasons - It's a Very Useful Habit

There are rules and tricks to caring for cabbage that are worth following.

Thanks to this, the harvest will be rich and of high quality.

An expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh reminds that it is still worth removing the lower leaves of the vegetable.

What does this give?

Disease prevention

Of course, this practice will not be able to protect the vegetable crop from all diseases, but it can have a fairly good preventive effect.

Therefore, the leaves are removed almost immediately.

Insects

Many insects can lay eggs directly on cabbage leaves that are close to the soil. Therefore, it is better to remove them so as not to increase the number of insects on the site.

Rotting

The lower leaves often "suffer" from the abundance of water that remains during watering or appears as a result of precipitation. If they are not removed, the entire cabbage head may suffer.

Earlier we talked about how to properly feed plums in order to get a rich harvest .

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• 23 December 2023

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