Planting cabbage - it's easy

Cabbage is a vegetable crop, grown mainly through seedlings. This not only helps to approximate the harvesting period, but also makes the heads more dense and well ripened. They can spend several months in the cellar without any problems.

There are many varieties of cabbage . Seedlings at home are grown quite simply. The main thing is not to delay the planting of cabbage. Experts say that "overexposed" before the period of formation of two real leaves of seedlings can lead to an inferior crop.

Cabbage planting is carried out mainly on smooth arable land. On wetlands with a close passage of groundwater and on irrigated areas, seedlings are planted on ridges and ridges by hand.

Varieties of this vegetable culture come in two categories: early cultivars or with a late maturation period. Favorable days for planting cabbage, the harvest of which is collected earlier than other subspecies, is the first of May. In the ground seedlings are placed on slightly compacted patterns, so that between rows there are up to forty centimeters.

Planting cabbage of late varieties is held a little later: from mid-May to mid-June.

Some experienced truck farmers soak the seedlings for several minutes in a 1% solution of carbophos, thereby protecting it from pests.

The first thing to do is to choose the right place for planting in the open ground of seedlings. It must certainly be on all sides an open place with a fairly loose, fertile and moisture-permeable soil. It is preferable to change the site every year. The best precursors of this vegetable are legumes, cucumbers, some root vegetables. And if on the site before that cabbage also grew, then put it on the same place better than a year later in three.

Planting cabbage involves digging small holes using a sapper blade . The depth of the pits is made in such a way that the real first leaf on the seedlings in the planted state is at the very surface of the soil.

Before planting it is necessary to sort all the seedlings, laying aside the weak and destroying the patient. Cabbage planting should be carried out whenever possible in a cloudy day, when a small rain drizzles.

After planting seedlings in the ground the plant is covered with earth, compacted. Then the seedlings are watered and mulched with humus or dry soil, so that it retains the necessary moisture in the ground and prevents its evaporation.

For the fastest rooting of the seedlings, it is watered very weakly after the transplantation for a week, maintaining only the upper layer of the soil in the wet state. Young plants preferably also in the midday hours also pritenyat within a week.

Planting cabbage, which is grown first in peat pots, is not very difficult, but it almost always gives good results.

Virtually all varieties of this vegetable culture respond well to organics. Therefore, if fertilizers are planted in the spring when planting cabbage, then it is better to use compost or humus for two or three kilograms per square meter.