Growing cabbage seedlings (Buryatia)
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Cabbage - planting and care, varieties for Buryatia - tips
Blue “cabbage” nursery
Fields and hills scorched by the ruthless sun are a drought that painted all the surroundings in yellowish-buffy tones. You walk through the meadow, and the burnt grass rustles under your feet, breaking. There is almost no rain. Black clouds swollen with water come in, drop two or three drops, the wind blows, and the sky is clear again. That was the past year in our area. I complained to my nine-year-old grandson Igor: “Something the heavenly office doesn’t work at all.” And he answered me: “Grandma, she’s under repair!”
Well, under repair, so under repair ... But there is no one to “repair” my land except for me. And she coped with this task, and on her own, because husband Mikhail and son Andrei left for their business. I note that most of all I paid (and always pay) attention to cabbage, because without it the table is empty. I’ll tell you about her.
I grow her seedlings. One half of the seedlings grows in wooden boxes (there are no discoveries here - everything is like everyone else has), and the other on a special nursery table. And there’s a special conversation about him.
It stands on four legs and consists of eight large sections, the walls of which are knitted from boards 2 cm thick, painted blue for the sake of beauty. The height of each department is 25 cm. I’m preparing the filling for them.
First, I lay a layer of fresh manure (10 cm) mixed with hay, then I bring ground from the garden, I add ash, sand, humus, mix everything, fall asleep in the sections on top of the manure, tamp and water well.
At the end of April, I sow seeds of cabbage there and cover everything with a warm mat, on top of which I lay the scaffolds, so as not to blown away by the wind (I also cover one more mat for the night). And in four days there are shoots. In the afternoon I remove the rugs and water about once every two days with warm water.
Well, while the seedlings are growing, I begin to prepare beds. First I dig a trench one and a half meters wide, put wet manure brought from the barn with hay, level it with a pitchfork and tamp it well to such an extent that I walk on it in rubber boots. Then, with a shovel, I fill in all the soil that was previously taken out and folded along the sides of the trench, bring in sand, ash, humus, thoroughly mix with an iron rake, level it and pour it with water. I cover with a film, on the sides I press it with bricks. All - now let the contents of the trench decay and warm the earth.
See also: White cabbage - early, medium and late varieties (description)
Treats for cabbage - ammonia halves
And now it's time to plant cabbage. But I first take the chopper and draw its sidewall on the ground long straight bands. Then on them, where the same hoe, and where the shovel is shovel (it all depends on whether I'm very tired or not), I choose the ground and add it to one side. Obtained shallow grooves.
Then at the very beginning I put a hose connected to the pump in the well and supply water. When it fills the groove, I throw the hose over to the next one, and in the first I quickly start planting cabbage from the boxes and nursery (before that I water it well, drag each plant with a lump of wet earth into the basin and then bring it to the garden). First I fill the grooves with early cabbage, then mid-ripening, and at the end - late ripe.
Moreover, the first plants I plant closer to each other, and the rest - with a large gap.
Last year everything took about six days. She got up at six in the morning, milked the cows, drove them out to the pasture, and rushed to the garden. I went home at 11-12 hours of the day, rested to three and again fled to the garden.
The sun was beating mercilessly, but I did not give up. And so it swung that I did not have enough space for 200 roots (Belorusskaya, Podarok and broccoli). What to do? And I decided to plant them where a cow paddock was made in winter - the land in that place is already well fertilized with organic matter. I cleaned the dung with a pitchfork, easily dug the holes with a special cultivator and put two handfuls of sand, garden soil and ash in each, mixed, poured and planted cabbage. In total, in the last season I planted 1250 roots.
Watered every other day, because the first rain was only 13 July, and the second only two weeks later. And the cabbage grew so much that I just had time to weed and soil it. Two times under the roots added ashes. In early August, there appeared caterpillars of cabbage scoops, which were eaten in the leaves by large windows. Then I made an infusion of tomato tops (kept it in a closed tub for five days), poured it on a half of an ordinary scoop in a bucket of water and watered the plants right on the leaves. And still between rows of cabbage laid freshly wormwood.
For puschego effect hung on poles along the landings plastic bottles, which poured diluted with water old jam from the wounded. It smelled good, a lot of them fell into a cabbage scoop and its caterpillars.
But only with these pests I managed, as in a week a cabbage whiting flew up to me. These are those who have few cabbages, can manually remove the caterpillars, and I have such vast expanses! I sat down for a long time (my sister gave it to me, I now pedals twisting at any time of the year) and went for 3 km to the hardware store, where I bought two bottles of ammonia water. She added it in half a bucket to a bucket of water, stirred and poured heads out of the bucket.
And she saved the cabbage again! The harvest was excellent. I sold 1 tonne 244 kg. To hand over to the store started already with 10 August, when for an early cabbage it is possible to take on 25 rubles for 1 kg (then in the price it will fall and reach 18 rubles).
And you, dear summer residents, how are you? At what price do you sell cabbage? And carrots, onions?
Reference by topic: How to grow cabbage for sale is a gardener's personal experience.
About varieties of “Buryat” cabbage
This sort of sow: June, Gribovskaya, Belorusskaya, Gift, Moscow Late, Hope, Megaton, Bourbon F1, Desired F1, Pound F1, Everest F1 and Broccoli Tonus.
© Author: Zoya Kornilova of Buryatia
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For my 80 years, I have never grown seedlings of early cabbage - I always bought it in glasses. But the time is now - everything is very expensive.
So I want to grow this year myself. Seeds of cabbage neighbor already bought, peat cups too. What's next? When to sow, how to care for seedlings?
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Before sowing the seeds should be placed in the refrigerator for a day (1-2 °). After that, soak. Peat cups filled with a mixture of sod (leaf) land, ripened ripe humus or biohumus, river sand in the ratio 1: 2: 1. Grind the soil. The planting period is determined on the basis that the average vegetative period of early cabbage is 90-120 days. In each peat pot should be planted on 2 seed. The depth of embedding is about 1, see.
After germination 2-th (weaker) seedling is removed (or dives into another container). Before emergence, the temperature in the room should be about 20 °. When the seeds ascend, you need to take the pots to where it is about 8 °, for a week. Then the cabbage is brought back into heat (16-18 °). Sprinkle the seedlings regularly, but excessive hydration can lead to the development of fungal diseases. Plant the plants in the open ground when 5-6 of these leaves appear.