Kale (photo) grade Reflex F1 - planting and care
Growing of leaf cabbage
Leaf cabbage Reflex F1 was for me a discovery last year. I try every year 
add some new plant to your vegetable collection. Some people like at once and stay for a long time, and with some I can not agree.
I began my acquaintance with varieties of leaf cabbage with Japanese Little Mermaid. In the annotation to the seeds it was said: “The plants are unpretentious, relatively heat- and cold-resistant.
After cutting, young leaves grow, which makes it possible to receive products throughout the summer-autumn period. The variety is resistant to flowering.
The value of the variety: high yield, resistance to unfavorable environmental conditions, long period of economic viability.
Grown in open or protected ground from early spring to late autumn, sowing it in several terms. Recommended for vitamin salads. "
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It all turned out, the leaves grew very quickly, after cutting for the salad, they grew and grew. Therefore, one or two bushes are sufficient for planting. Then there were salad Japanese cabbage Mitsuno Red and Mitsuno Green.
The value of Japanese cabbage is its incredible growth rate: in 30-40 days you can cut fresh herbs, in which there is a high content of biologically active substances. I recommend trying, I think, and you will like it.
After that, I tried to grow Pekinese cabbage Miss China F1 and other varieties that are sold in winter in supermarkets.
Advantages of the hybrid: early ripeness, short growing period, the ability to grow in spring and autumn, high quality of head.
I grew this cabbage in a greenhouse along the path. It all turned out, only it was more delicious than from the supermarket. But with Chinese cabbage pak-choi (petiolate varieties) and did not manage to make friends. As I did not care for her, she all went into color.
And last spring I planted a leaf cabbage Reflex.
Seedlings I grow in a greenhouse. To do this, I use homemade pots of plastic bottles, cutting a bottle on 10 cm from the side of the neck.
Then I put the bottles into the ground with the neck down (without the cork) in the greenhouse along the path. I fill the resulting pots with earth and plant the seeds. When the seedlings grow, I remove the pots from the ground and dip them into the water. Calmly I take out the seedlings and transplant them to a permanent place.
I got three sprouts of Reflex. After the transplant, the cabbage grew quickly and looked beautiful - a kind of curly beauty (see photo).
Everyone who came to us on the site, immediately paid attention to it and asked what kind of miracle I am growing.
In spring and summer we cut off the necessary number of leaves and used this cabbage in salads, and cooked cabbage soup with it (it tastes like spinach to taste).
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Autumn has come, and in the end of September our beauty has grown up to 80 cm (which was also mentioned in the annotation). There were no pests on it.
Since there were still a lot of leaves on the cabbage, I decided to freeze it to use it in the winter for soups. Narwhal leaves, washed, cut them along the veins and divided into small leafy kochanchiki. She then poured hot water over them. When the leaves cooled down, put them into bags for freezing and put them in the freezer.
© Author: Svetlana Dmitrieva Moscow
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Kale kale has become my favorite quite recently - I’ll tell you about its cultivation. Its main advantage is that it is very cold-resistant, so I boldly sow the seeds in April into a film greenhouse with a continuous, to a depth of 2 cm. I sprinkle with a leaf humus on top. By the end of May, seedlings will grow, and it can be planted on beds. In the garden I do two rows.
Between the plants I leave the distance 35-40 cm, so that the spreading leaves should grow. I make large holes, I throw ash and humus in each. I mix everything, pour it over with water. When the water is absorbed, I plant cabbage. Leaves I eat all summer; new, young people are growing on the site of the cut.
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Chinese leaf cabbage is always grown through seedlings. This allows somewhere in 2 times to get a harvest faster than when sowing in the ground. But since this culture is extremely sensitive to root damage, seedlings are grown in peat pots to plant directly into them and not injure the root system.
I sow cabbage at the end of May, and plant it in the garden in early July. At the same time, you can sow Chinese cabbage for the second harvest - immediately into the ground. Just keep in mind that at least 60 days will pass from sowing to full ripening.
I plant seedlings in staggered order at a distance of 30 cm, so that the cabbage leaves do not interfere with each other. I prepare the soil in the beds from autumn, I bring in more organic substances. This cabbage loves light, rich, loose soils with a neutral environment. She also needs moisture, so water it often and abundantly during the summer, otherwise the plant will not form a dense outlet, but leave in color.
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Who needs leafy cabbage in the fall, when the vegetable garden is broken without vegetables? I need to make such a mild salad. On its preparation I spend 15 min.
I have been on a diet for a long time, and kale is replacing meat for me. Do not be surprised - she is very nutritious.
200 g of green mass is a daily dose of protein, and it is absorbed more easily than from meat. And another moment, very important for people of my age. This cabbage has a lot of vitamin A - the most important for vision. It is 80 times (!) More than in ordinary cabbage. Convinced? Then to the garden!
I tear off the most delicate leaves of leafy cabbage, but their structure is still rough and there is bitterness. But this bitterness is useful, especially with metabolic disorders.
To whom it is unpleasant, simply cover the leaves with boiling water.
And if the cabbage is slightly taken autumn frost, the bitterness will not be at all (you can put the leaves for half an hour in the freezer).
Then I leave my leaves and finely tear them straight into the salad bowl (I don’t take any veins), cut into 2 apple slices, add a handful of raisins, for dressing - 1/3 cup olive oil and 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar. An extremely healthy salad is ready!
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Who needs leafy cabbage in the fall, when the vegetable garden is broken without vegetables? I need to make such a mild salad. On its preparation I spend 15 min.
I have been on a diet for a long time, and kale is replacing meat for me. Do not be surprised - she is very nutritious.
200 g of green mass is a daily dose of protein, and it is absorbed more easily than from meat. And another moment, very important for people of my age. This cabbage has a lot of vitamin A - the most important for vision. It is 80 times (!) More than in ordinary cabbage. Convinced? Then to the garden!
I tear off the most delicate leaves of leafy cabbage, but their structure is still rough and there is bitterness. But this bitterness is useful, especially with metabolic disorders.
To whom it is unpleasant, simply cover the leaves with boiling water.
And if the cabbage is slightly taken autumn frost, the bitterness will not be at all (you can put the leaves for half an hour in the freezer).
Then I leave my leaves and finely tear them straight into the salad bowl (I don’t take any veins), cut into 2 apple slices, add a handful of raisins, for dressing - 1/3 cup olive oil and 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar. An extremely healthy salad is ready!
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Curiously, no one knows where the leaf cabbage came from. Science claims that it refers to wild cabbage, that is, it is the ancestor of others.
She grew up once and on Russian beds, and then disappeared.
In vain, how does it color your garden in the fall!
Redbor. Dark-violet slightly curly leaves. Productivity. frost resistance and decorativeness are good.
Reflex. The leaves are gray-green, strongly corrugated, withstands frosts up to -18 °. Decorative, taste is high.
Mosbach. Leaves curly with festons of light green color. It has the shape of a dome up to 80 in diameter.
Red high curly. Dark purple, almost black leaves. It has good frost resistance.
The tongue of a lark. Curled green long leaves. Frost-resistant.
Red feces. Leaves twisted, red.
Curly, beautiful, healthy ...
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Recently in the store I saw corrugated lilac leaves of cabbage. Is it really the same one that grows on flower beds before winter? And is it edible?
On the package I read that it is kale leaf sprouts. But these are not the lilac-pink cochanca that grow like flowers on flowerbeds. The leaf form of cabbage is arranged differently, it does not have a rosette-headband, outwardly it is rather. It is similar to a palm tree, there is a trunk and on it large corrugated or smooth leaves.
Cabbage and palm trees
But the main difference is different. "Heads" are decorative species, mainly of Japanese selection (a series of hybrids of Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka). "Palms" is a garden culture and very useful. Just a series of kale hybrids (red and green), types of Reflex F1, Redbor F1 and many others belong to it.
First Venture
I planted Reflex F1 kale, this is a mid-late hybrid of dark green color. Since kale has a long growing season, I grew it through seedlings. I put two seeds in one peat pot (then I chose the most developed one), patched their depth 1 cm. I watered moderately and fed twice (when the second real leaves appeared and two weeks before planting in the ground). Top dressing: 20-30 g nitroammofoski on 10 l of water. A 40-45-day-old seedling with 5 real leaves was planted in open ground, this was the beginning of May. Then she didn’t care much, only watered. In June, I already selectively cut the leaves, chose the most tender from the depths of the outlet. Lower did not touch - the plant may die. So cabbage grew before winter. And the colder, the sweeter and more elegant the leaves. Then, to prolong the pleasure, transplanted her into a pot - and go home!