Cabbage is a vegetable crops grown mainly through seedlings.This not only helps to approach the harvest period, but also makes more dense heads of cabbage and well matured.They are without any problems may lie for months in the cellar.
cabbage varieties are many.Seedlings grown at home is quite simple.The main thing is not to delay planting of cabbage.Experts say that "overexposed" to the period of the formation of two real leaves seedlings can lead to defective harvest.
Planting cabbage is preferably carried out on smooth arable land.In waterlogged soil with a close passage of groundwater in irrigated areas and seedlings are planted on ridges and ridges manually.
varieties of vegetable crops come in two categories: early or late cultivars ripening.Favorable days for planting cabbage harvest is going earlier than other subspecies - are the first of May.The land is placed on the seedling slightly compacted schemes, so as to between rows remain to forty centimeters.
planting late varieties of cabbage held later: from mid-May to mid-June.
Some experienced gardeners soak the seedlings for a few minutes in a one percent solution of malathion, thereby protecting it from pests.
The first thing to do - is to choose the right place for planting seedlings in open ground.It certainly should be on all sides by open space with a fairly loose, fertile soil and moisture permeable.Preferably every year to change section.The best precursors of this vegetable are beans, cucumbers, some root vegetables.And if in the area before that, too, grew cabbage, then put it in the same place better in three years.
Planting cabbage involves digging using Sapper shovel small holes.The depth of the pits is done so that the first real leaf seedlings planted in the state was at the surface of the soil.
Before planting the seedlings need to sort all, putting aside the weak and destroying sick.Planting cabbage should be performed whenever possible in overcast denёk when spitting drizzle.
After placing the plant seedlings in the ground covered with earth, compacted.Then the seedlings watered and mulch humus or dry soil, so she kept the necessary moisture in the ground and prevent it from evaporating.
for its speedy establishment of seedlings after transplanting in the week watering is very weak, supporting the wet only the top layer of soil.Young plants are desirable to the same at midday also pritenyat during the week.
Planting cabbage that are grown in peat-compost pots first, not is very complex, but it is almost always with good results.
Almost all varieties of vegetable crops respond well to organic.Therefore, if the fertilizer at planting cabbage made in the spring, it is best to use for this purpose compost or humus at the rate of two or three kilograms per square meter.
