Usually, cabbage is grown through seedlings. It is sown with seeds one and a half months before transplanting to a permanent place in the garden bed.
The soil for growing cabbage should be loamy and well-fertilized with organic matter or mineral fertilizer.
This could be rotted animal humus and nitroammophoska.
Also, you need to pay attention to the predecessor plants that grew in this bed last year.
Favorable predecessors for growing cabbage can be plantings with carrots, cucumbers, onions and legumes.
Cabbage is considered a cold-resistant crop. Therefore, if cabbage seedlings are well hardened, they will be able to withstand light frosts during growth in open ground.
Cabbage should be watered frequently and generously, since with insufficient moisture, poor leaf formation and formation of small heads of cabbage may be observed. However, with over-watering, cracked heads of cabbage can be obtained.
When caring for this plant, you need to regularly remove weeds and loosen the soil underneath it.
It is worth fertilizing and hilling the soil twice per season. The first time this is done 14 days after planting the seedlings in open ground, and the second time three weeks after the first.
It is also useful for cabbage to treat it with wood ash from time to time. This will help fight the main pests - slugs and flea beetles.
