After what you can’t grow cabbage: 3 common mistakes of summer residents

24.01.2025 14:19

If you decide to plant white cabbage in your country house, then take into account one very important point.

Thus, the wrong choice of location for this garden crop may well lead to partial or even complete loss of the harvest.

When planting cabbage, it is necessary to follow crop rotation rules.

Thus, the plant should not be located where certain crops grew last year.

An expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh listed representatives of the flora after which it is impossible to grow white cabbage.

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After nightshades

Cabbage cannot be planted where a member of the nightshade family grew last year.

Examples: potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants.

If you ignore the rules, the cabbage will simply not have enough nutrients due to depleted soil.

In addition, the plant will most likely encounter dangerous diseases.

After other types of cabbage

It would be a mistake to plant white cabbage in place of other members of the cabbage family.

The consequences of such a mistake will be very serious: the plant will become extremely vulnerable to a large number of diseases and pests.

After legumes

Peas and beans are also bad predecessors for cabbage.

After these crops, the soil shows a lack of components necessary for the “main character” of the article.

Kurchev Anton Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert: Anastasia KovrizhnykhExpert / Belnovosti


Content
  1. After nightshades
  2. After other types of cabbage
  3. After legumes