From care for cabbage during initial stage of growth, and it is the share of the first half of summer, further development of all plant directly depends, and what head of cabbage will grow by fall.
After seedling of cabbage has taken root and has started in growth, it needs regular fertilizing. During initial stage of growth the cabbage increases sheet weight. And it means that it needs, first of all, a lot of nitrogen. Nitrogen in available form is in structure of any organic chemistry, grass infusions. Important when fertilizing not to apply strong concentrates of such fertilizing mixes. Let fertilizing will be frequent, time in 7-10 days, but weak.
Fertilizing of cabbage combines with waterings. At the dry soil on beds at first spill radical zone at cabbage plants, and then bring fertilizing liquid mixes.
What fertilizers to apply to growth of leaves?
Extract from bird's dung, mullein, infusions of herbs with addition of yeast, ashes are the most useful to cabbage during growth. But also specialized fertilizing with mineral fertilizers for cabbage also should be used. There are various organomineral fertilizing mixes for cabbage cultures in which is both.
How to feed up cabbage in rainy weather?
With approach of long cold weather with steady rains you should not feed up cabbage liquid mixes. Cabbage loves moisture, but overwetting for it can lead to diseases. Besides in the rehumidified soil the roots experience oxygen starvation and cannot acquire the offered power supply.
Exit in such time is use of the granulated fertilizers, alternating them to adding humus, biohumus in radical zone.
With weak growth it is possible to apply high-speed urea (carbamide), in it there is a lot of nitrogen.
You should not forget that during wet weather slugs actively ""work"" with young leaves. In such time it is impossible to apply mulch.
How often it is necessary to water cabbage at the beginning of growth?
Cabbage belongs to hygrophilous cultures. But during initial growth water it moderately, allowing to dry out surface layer of the soil.
For the best watering around plants do groove in the form of ring and water on it. Thereby the area for the further growth of roots increases.
After waterings next day the soil is loosened and hilled around stalk, again doing groove for the following watering until leaves of the next plants are closed.
Why it is necessary to loosen cabbage often?
Cabbage has weak roots which grow along with elevated sheet weight during initial stage of growth. And loosening promotes the best air exchange. Besides at frequent loosening the wreckers (cabbage fly, slugs, scoop, etc.) cannot ""be equipped"" at root zone. Along with loosening it is necessary to hill stipitate at cabbage.
Earthing up promotes the best korneobrazovaniye. The grades having long stipitate should be hilled gradually. At earthing up it is not necessary to fill up the lower leaves: in the damp soil they will begin to rot, increasing risk of development of pathogenic microorganisms.