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EARLY CABBAGE - PREPARATION OF SEEDS, SOWING AND LANDING IN OPEN GROUND

I want to tell you about our vegetable mistress - cabbage.

This person loves water and good weather. A good cabbage will curl into a head, and a bad one will rot in the leaves. Since ancient times, our ancestors knew a lot about the healing properties of cabbage. In the old Russian medical books it says: crushed cabbage is mixed with egg white, applied to burns and wounds, and they heal. And our lady is a long-liver: people began to use it more than seven thousand years ago! So we, summer gardeners, grow this crop, calling it the third bread.

Previously, with no experience behind me, I grew cabbage, like all other vegetables, through seedlings at home. Oh, and tormented! The seedlings either stretched out, then fell, then the mice got it for lunch, then the black leg mowed it down ... I began to buy ready-made seedlings from my hands, but even here failure awaited me: I brought a sore into the soil - a cabbage keel. I had to treat the land.

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Cabbage does not like heat, so it is problematic to get excellent seedlings in a warm house.

After germination, it must be kept at a temperature not exceeding 10 ° for a week, and then at a temperature of 12-14 °.

PREPARATION OF CABBAGE SEEDS FOR SOWING

After weighing all the pros and cons, I decided to develop my own method of sowing and planting my favorite vegetable. I sow early white cabbage of the June variety in an unheated greenhouse early, in early April (according to the weather), at a soil temperature of up to 8-10 °. When sowing, I warm the seeds in warm (60 °) water - I think that this is the most effective way of preparation. But if the seeds are coated, such preparation is not necessary. Sometimes I spill the earth with hot water before sowing.

The soil in the garden has been prepared since autumn: earth + lowland peat + vermiculite + ash. I make grooves, sow seeds and fill the grooves with sand, covering them with lutrasil on top. After 5-6 days, I spill the sprouts with an ash solution as the soil dries. As the seedlings grow, I substitute props under lutrasil - sticks, staples, etc. When 4-5 true leaves appear, I plant the seedlings in a garden according to the 40 × 40 cm scheme, where onions (turnips) grew last year. This is a good predecessor for early cabbage.

But I sow late white, colored, broccoli in adjustable beds a little later, along with annual flowers - marigolds, asters, calendula, etc. Marigolds will later be planted along with cabbage as a protection against insects, and for beauty - an incomparable combination.

I sow cabbage in grooves 1,5 cm deep, the distance between rows is 15-18 cm, it is convenient for loosening, watering and subsequent transplanting. I put labels with varieties on each row. I strictly observe the distance between the seeds - 5 cm. Result: no competition and an increased area for plant nutrition. I put moss between the rows on top: it retains moisture and protects plants from diseases. Further, everything is according to the same scheme as when sowing early cabbage.

TRANSPLANTING CABBAGE SEEDLINGS IN OPEN GROUND

I plant seedlings with 4-5 leaves in open ground according to the scheme 60 × 70 cm in May. I feed my lady three times a season with ready-made fertilizer for cabbage containing superphosphate, potassium sulfate and urea.

After planting, I shade the seedlings with the help of lutrasil and improvised materials - I put light canopies. In the hot summer, cabbage loves to take a cold shower at noon, and green nettles are attached to its feet.

VARIETIES OF CABBAGE FOR THE RYAZAN REGION

On my site, white cabbage varieties have proven themselves excellently: Slava, Megaton, Sugar Loaf; color - White excel F1; broccoli - tone. Beijing cabbage I sow a glass in July, after harvesting the garlic, spilling the garden bed with water and potassium permanganate.

I wish you all health, success and good luck in growing your favorite and useful crops!

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Ekaterina Polyakova
09/10/2022 (15:49) #

I read that late varieties of cabbage should be removed from the garden only after the first frost, so that the upper leaves freeze. Allegedly, such cabbage will ferment better and will not be bitter. Will it be kept?

- OOO "Sad"
  09/10/2022 (15:49) #
  
  - White cabbage is one of the most cold-resistant vegetable crops. Despite the autumn drop in temperature, it continues to increase its yield. However, with an abundance of moisture, cabbage heads begin to crack, more sugar accumulates in them, and such overripe heads of cabbage are poorly stored.
  Cabbage of late varieties easily tolerates frosts up to -5 degrees. If this happens, then you will have to wait a couple of days with the harvest, then cut the heads without delay, since the cabbage cannot stand repeated exposure to low temperatures.
  It is also believed that after a slight frost, the vegetable becomes sweeter, its bitterness disappears.
  
  At lower temperatures, the shelf life is drastically reduced. If 2-3 leaves are frozen at the head, it will be stored for more than three months, and if 5-6 sheets - no more than three months. In addition, a healthy appearance does not guarantee that the cabbage does not get sick. Rotting processes may already begin inside.
  
  What to do if the heads of cabbage are frozen in the garden? Remove a few top leaves, and put the heads of cabbage to thaw in a cool room in a box lined with cardboard. It is better to store the forks by laying them out in 1 - 2 rows and pouring abundantly with crushed chalk. With stronger freezing, cabbage should be thawed in 2 stages. First put for 2-3 days in a cool room with a temperature of +1 +5 degrees, and then - in a warmer room (+10 + 15 degrees). It is desirable to put such cabbage into action as soon as possible. There are different opinions about its fermentation: some housewives do not advise fermenting such heads of cabbage, while others believe that, on the contrary, it is better.