Growing Beijing Cabbage Planting and Care - Simple Effective Tips
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As I found an approach to a wonderful culture - Beijing cabbage.
© Author: N.Aleksandrenko. Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan
KOCHANI - AT A GLANCE!
Now it has become popular to grow Peking cabbage, which is also called Chinese salad. Heads with delicate leaves fell in love with my whole family.
In order to get beautiful and tight cabbages, I choose hybrids resistant to early flowering, for example, the Cha-Cha hybrid F1. sowing on seedlings
I plant this vegetable both seedling and non-seedling.
I noticed that Beijing cabbage does not really like transplanting. For an early harvest, I sow seeds in late March - early April in separate cups with a volume of at least 200 ml.
After sprouting seedlings need full coverage, otherwise it will be frail and greatly stretch. I plant seedlings in open ground not earlier than the beginning of May, when she has real leaves on 4.
It's important
Beijing cabbage is a short daylight vegetable. It forms a head in 12-hour light, and a long day provokes it to bloom.
PLACE FOR CABBAGE
Place for growing choose open, well drained. Suitable precursors of this culture: garlic, onion, cucumber, potatoes.
Beijing cabbage loves nutritious soil and does not tolerate acidic soils. We have a sour soil, so when planting under each bush I contribute 3 Art. l wood ash or digging add xnumx ash on xnumx m2.
PREPARATION OF THE PLACE FOR BAKING
In early spring, I cover the planting area with a black film so that the soil warms up faster. After forming a bulk bed with high sides, which allows moisture to linger, which is so necessary for young seedlings. I plant seedlings of cabbage in one row at a distance of 35-40.
If nighttime cooling is expected, I put on 5-liter cut bottles on the seedlings. In hot weather, plants shading with thin covering material, which I spread over the arcs, sowing in the ground
In open ground, I sow seeds in 20 in April through 35-40, see the hole in 2 seed to depth 1-1,5, see. When the seedlings sprout, I delete the one that is weaker.
Council
Beijing cabbage is beautifully stored in a cool place, if dry cabbages wrap with cling film.
I sow the crops with water from a watering can with a strainer and put a greenhouse from a light covering material on top.
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CARE FOR PEKING CAPTURE
At the stage of two true leaves of the plant I feed it with an infusion of herbs or any nitrogen fertilizer for a good set of leaf mass.
When a head of cabbage begins to form, I feed with potash fertilizer. I use potassium humate according to the instructions - I add 2 times with an interval of 7-14 days.
Timely watering is very important, especially in dry time. Loosening, protection from pests also have a beneficial effect on yields.
WHEN TO CLEAN HARVEST
The vegetative period in Beijing cabbage lasts from 40 to 50 days. I want to warn readers of the mistake that I once made. I decided to allow mature heads to grow a little more and after 2 on the day of my arrival at the dacha I found out that almost all heads had flowered. Do not overdo peking cabbage, shoot the entire crop.
But even if the cabbage has gone to color, this vegetable will not lose its valuable and taste qualities.
GROWING BEIJING CABBAGE - PLANTING AND CARE, ADVICE AND FEEDBACK
BEIJING IS EASY TO GROW
I have seen this from my own experience. True, I did not manage to grow it right away.
At first, I sowed Chinese cabbage directly into the ground in April. Bypassing the stage of head formation, she shot and became unsuitable for food.
Now I sow Beijing cabbage only in the second half of July and immediately - to a permanent place. By this time, a bed is freed from under the winter garlic. Before sowing, I introduce humus or complex mineral fertilizer into the soil. In the garden, I mark up the planting pattern of at least 40 × 40 cm (Beijing can not be planted densely). I sow two seeds in each hole (for safety net).
I try to buy seeds only early varieties. If late ones are sown at this time, heads of cabbage will not have time to ripen.
I cover the row with crops with a spunbond and spill it well with water from a watering can. After the emergence of seedlings (the seeds germinate in a few days), I remove the shelter, dust the plants with ash and immediately install low arches with covering material, which I do not remove until harvesting.
As soon as the seedlings get stronger, I leave a more developed plant in the hole, I pluck the frail one. Under the shelter, comfortable conditions are created for the growth of plants, and reliable protection against butterflies is also provided. Otherwise, the caterpillars then damage the leaves.
I do not use chemicals, such protection of landings suits me quite well. The shelter cannot save from the slugs that love this delicacy, but I collect them by hand, periodically inspecting the plants.
SO THAT YOU KNOW
To grow an early harvest of Peking, it must be sown for seedlings in March, and planted in a permanent place in a month.
During the growth of the planting, I weed, loosen the aisles, if necessary, water abundantly once a week. Usually I do not feed the plants, as I fertilize the soil well.
In the past summer season, she grew the Manoko F1 variety of the Dutch selection. Since there were only 15 seeds in the package, I sowed one at a time. Germination was 100%!
I was satisfied with the harvest. Filmed it in October.
© Author: Olga Prudnikova, Gomel region.
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BEIJING SEU IN JULY
I sow Peking cabbage seeds one at a time in a greenhouse after July 20. I adhere to the obligatory rule - no hilling and even the slightest raking of soil to plants when weeding and loosening row spacings. I noticed that after hilling, the Peking freezes in growth, may refuse to tie a head of cabbage or even begin to rot.
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We always plant Beijing in early July. Last season, all deadlines were missed, but they were planted at random on August 1 on a bed freed from garlic. The soil was loose, we just leveled it, made holes every 20 cm and sowed two or three seeds. There was still room in the garden bed, and I also sowed green radish and daikon in two grooves. I sprinkled the bottom of the grooves with mustard: it came to mind that it was advised to sprinkle the holes with mustard or mustard cake from pests before planting.
Both cabbage and radish with daikon quickly grew. Due to the neglect of the garden, it was not possible to pay attention to them, I only watered and laid out nettles from slugs.
The radish is tasty and healthy, but it didn’t work to grow it - it’s always gnawed at us, the pests love it very much. And now we are digging at the end of September - so what? Nice clean radish, long daikon, and no wormholes! And all thanks to the mustard.
Peking cabbage also pleased me, I only had to cut off the upper leaves here and there, spoiled by slugs. We still eat it, we have never bought it in the store. We make a salad with tomatoes and vegetable oil from Peking cabbage.
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Dear Readers! Tell me the secrets of growing Peking cabbage. The fact is that, although it grows large, with juicy leaves, the bushes turn out to be spreading, and not in the shape of a glass. I'm waiting, waiting, when, finally, the heads of cabbage begin to appear, and then suddenly you look - everything went into the arrow. Something is wrong here ...
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Autumn pie
I manage to harvest Peking cabbage 3-4 times per season. To protect the plants from the cruciferous flea, I sow seeds in a greenhouse with tomatoes (for this I leave space between the tomato bushes). The final sowing is done in September.
I feed the grown cabbage after watering with warm water with a mullein solution (1:10). I pour 1 liter of top dressing under each plant.
Sometimes I use yeast: I dilute 100 g of fresh yeast in 10 liters of lukewarm water, pour 1 liter under the plant.
TIP: To make the heads of cabbage better tied, I spray the Peking with a solution of boric acid (I dilute 2 g in 1 liter of hot water and bring the volume with clean cold water to 10 liters).
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Why Peking blooms
I’ve been trying to grow Beijing cabbage for several years, but it hasn’t come out yet. The heads of cabbage barely begin to tie, as the plants immediately go into bloom. Why?
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One of the most common reasons that Beijing cabbage goes into bloom is the wrong place for the garden. Peking grows best in partial shade. A completely open area does not suit her.
In addition, it is important to choose the right landing time. If you plant seedlings in open ground too early - cabbage can bloom from the cold. If you do it late - from the heat.
Plants of zoned varieties are less likely to go color, so when choosing seeds, give preference to domestic producers.
Do not be late with cleaning. If you visit the cottage once a week, harvest earlier.
Cabbage may refuse to head out if you damage the roots when planting seedlings.
Lack of nutrition and moisture can also cause flowering.