Cabbage is ideal vegetable culture for your kitchen garden or personal plot. She is very unpretentious and maintains easy frosts.
Cabbage combines set of useful substances for human body. For example, sauerkraut perfectly affects immunity and participates in formation of hemoglobin in blood. Therefore cultivation of this vegetable at the personal plots has engaged great number of gardeners.
How to receive good and tasty harvest?
To grow up cabbage in the open ground, it is necessary to make in the early spring small hotbed and to plant there cabbage seeds. It is better to choose the solar place and for hotbed to use normal film. In process of growth of seedling to decide on the place of disembarkation. Cabbage will well give rise on the place of last year's cultivation of onions, cucumbers or carrots. In principle it is not especially whimsical vegetable.
When seedling became in height about about 15-17 centimeters and warm days (for midland it is the end of May beginning of June) have come, it is possible to start rassazhivaniye of plants. Approximately on one square meter 7-8 roots take seat. Do not forget to prishchipyvat surely the lower small part of back when landing. It will allow to avoid formation of some diseases.
After cabbage is planted, surely water once again. But do it accurately not to damage plant. In general cabbage very hygrophilous plant and needs to be watered it every day early in the morning, and during heat also in the evening (for sandy soils and loams).
In process of growth you watch closely various wreckers and do not allow bad impact on vegetables. Cabbage very much suffers from butterfly of cabbage white butterfly. Its larvae devour leaves and do not allow plant to develop well. It is necessary to oprysnut cabbage from this wrecker in time.
When cabbage begins to curl in heads of cabbage, excess lower leaves need to be torn off that power supply went only in the necessary direction. Once a month you carry out scarification around plant and weeding.
If big heads of cabbage have grown and they began to tend aside, put under them props, thereby to cabbage will easier grow.
As soon as heads of cabbage became strong and hard, means they have ripened. But you do not hurry to collect, wait for the first frosts. After such natural influence the cabbage develops unique taste.
Cabbage can be eaten as fresh, for example in salad, and in specially prepared.