Growing cabbage on a spunbond - my reviews and tips
How to grow cabbage on spunbond - planting and care
Five years ago I moved to live in another city where I rented a neglected garden for several years. It was not located close to, and there was a lot of grass, and I decided that I would manage only with black non-woven material or spunbond.
First of all, I planted squash and pumpkins on it. But on the spunbond there was a place that I occupied with seedlings of cabbage. Zucchini has grown excellent without watering and weeding, but cabbage is not very: zucchini interfered with it ... But this experience showed me the most important thing - cabbage can also be grown on a spunbond!
Since then, for four years now, I've grown cabbage exclusively on black spunbond. This spring I was in a hurry to plant cabbage seedlings and I did not want to spread the material, but I changed my mind in time! How can I deprive myself of the mass of advantages that spunbond gives and doom myself to extra work?
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What gives black covering material?
Of course, its main advantage is protection against weeds. Spunbond cabbage weeding is not necessary at all!
Only around the stem of the plant, but usually cabbage quickly spreads its huge leaves and itself oppresses all the weeds underneath.
Another great feature of a spunbond is its moisture retention. Indeed, in fact, black spanbond is a mulch! But the cabbage will not grow if you do not provide it with excellent watering ... Spanbond lets rain water through, but does not allow moisture to evaporate from the surface of the soil! Recently, supporters of natural farming have been actively promoting the use of grass mulch to retain moisture and protect against weeds, but this mulch only attracts slugs and snails. I checked it on my bitter experience. Mulch from grass under cabbage is especially undesirable because slugs adore it. By the way, I never water my cabbage in the summer! The climate allows, in summer we have regular rains.
When I talk about this method of growing cabbage, I am often asked two questions: how to hunt and how to feed?
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You do not need to sprout cabbage on a spunbond!
I believe that any cabbage does not need to be hilled.
It is believed that cabbage forms an additional root system, but, as my experience shows, new plant roots do not. It is also believed that in this way it will be easier for cabbage to keep its “head”. However, not all varieties form a long stem. In my practice, only one head of cabbage lay on its side once, but this did not stop him from growing until late autumn ...
As for feeding, in the process of growth, I do not feed cabbage! Only when planting in the hole I put biohumus, ash, eggshell and good humus. If you immediately give a good meal to your cabbage, then more it will not need anything. Of course, provided the soil is sufficiently moistened.
Another important question remains: how to plant cabbage on a spanbond? It is very easy to do. Spanbond can be spread both on the processed dug up soil with fertilizers, and on almost virgin soil - the soil with weeds and not dug. Anyway, over the summer, all weeds will rot, and the worms will loosen the soil. I cut holes on a spunbond - “crosses” or “zeroes”. I take out the soil from these holes and put it on a spanbond or in a bucket. I put fertilizers into the hole and plant seedlings, falling asleep on top of the soil that I originally took out. And of course, after planting, seedlings must be watered.
By the way, this year I began to use an insect net for cabbage. It protects plants from all butterflies, flies and moths. And I get excellent heads of cabbage without any hassle - without weeding, watering and worrying about pests!
© Author: A. VOLKOVA, Riga
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