Everyone thinks that growing cabbage is a simple matter. However, not everything is so simple, the cabbage has not set, is small in size, becomes loose or even wilted, rotted on the site and other problems that arise during its cultivation.
Growing cabbage seedlings
Choose seeds of late or mid-late ripening varieties and large-fruited hybrid forms.
Observe the required sowing dates in the ground, because this vegetable has a long growing season.
Before the cold weather, the cabbage heads should have time to set and ripen. The sowing time for seeds for a particular variety is indicated on the packaging by the manufacturer.
Growing seedlings is not necessary at all. They can be purchased from trusted gardeners the day before planting in open ground.
Growing Cabbage
1. Prepare the bed by adding organic fertilizer to the soil: mixed rotted humus or compost with wood ash and add superphosphate. Deacidify acidic soil with dolomite flour.
2. Make planting holes at a distance of 80-90 cm in a row. Do not plant cabbage seedlings in a bed where last year there were beds with rutabaga, turnip, radish, kale, asparagus, horseradish, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, horseradish, mustard, watercress, Swiss chard and other cruciferous vegetables.
3. Plant the plant carefully so as not to damage its roots. Before planting, water it and take it out together with the soil lump. Deepen the seedlings to the true leaves.
4. Keep the soil in the bed always moist, water only with warm water and do not allow it to dry out, so as not to ruin the seedlings.
5. After 14 days, apply nitrogen-containing fertilizer under the root to actively increase the plant's green mass, and after 30 days, add a full mineral complex to the soil. Throughout the summer, fertilize the cabbage 2-3 times with organic fertilizer and superphosphate.
6. Once every 1-2 weeks, loosen the soil around the cabbage stems and remove any weeds that appear. Thickening the plantings takes away nutrients from the plant.
7. Sprinkle the seedlings with a mixture of wood ash and tobacco pollen once every 7 days to prevent pests from appearing. Do this after watering or rain.
8. Water the soil every 2-3 weeks with biological preparations, which should include hay bacillus, so that the plant is not affected by fusarium.
If caterpillars, aphids and fleas appear on the cabbage bed, immediately use a contact insecticide, otherwise the pests will eat the entire harvest instantly.
