As well as many other vegetable cultures, cabbage need to be grown up in the seedling way. Especially it concerns different types of white cabbage. What at the same time many gardeners make the main mistakes and how to correct them?
Instruction
1. Cultivation of seedling of cabbage demands special skills and knowledge. Therefore often plants badly grow or perish. For what reasons it can occur and how to solve them? Mistake No. 1. Crops on seedling of the raw seeds. Many gardeners sow the raw seeds that causes further development of serious diseases on plants. Diseases are generally transmitted through seeds. Therefore it is necessary before crops on seedling seeds to process solution of potassium permanganate or to buy special medicines for this purpose, for example fitosporin or baktofit.
2. Mistake No. 2. Early cultivation of seedling kapustys this process you should not hurry. Cabbage though is cold-resistant plant, but nevertheless badly transfers low temperature of the growth in the beginning. And any kind of white cabbage in certain terms has to ripen. Therefore begin to plant cabbage on seedling only in April. At first sow seeds of early cabbage which will be ready to disembarkation to the open ground in 35-40 days. And here late and average cabbage is sowed only at the end of April. They are transplanted to the open ground not earlier than the beginning of June.
3. Mistake No. 3. Use for cultivation of seedling of cabbage of peat or other heavy soil mix. For it it is better to prepare independently soil, having mixed prime quality land from kitchen garden and the bought special soil for all species of cruciferae family of plants. Also in order to avoid soil subsidence when watering, add yellow sand to it.
4. Mistake No. 4. Too dense posadkakonechno, seedling of cabbage can grow in any kind. But thickening leads to formation of such disease as black leg. Therefore seedling of cabbage is planted at distance by not less than 4 cm from each other.
5. Mistake No. 5. Cultivation of seedling in dark of mesteesla to grow up cabbage seedling in house conditions, it needs to be put on windowsill from South side of the room. If such opportunity does not exist, then seedling is highlighted lamps and install reflective screens by means of foil and cardboard around. If to grow up seedling of cabbage in the greenhouse or hotbed, then she needs to be put on the lightest place.
6. Mistake No. 6. Frequent watering of seedling kapustyeto can also lead to development in plants of various diseases. Therefore the soil under seedling of cabbage has to be in moist state. Frequency of watering depends on type of soil. If on the site the sandy soil, then it is possible to water every other day. In other cases is much more rare. Also it is impossible to water with cold water. Optimum water temperature for watering is +22 degrees.
7. Mistake No. 7. The usloviyakhrassada of cabbage well sprouts cultivation of seedling in too cold at temperature over +20 degrees. Further it can be slightly lower, but should not fall up to +6 degrees in cases of emergence of frosts seedling or remove from cold windowsill, or in addition cover with material if it grows in the greenhouse or hotbed.