The white cabbage at the wrong leaving or adverse conditions can crack, at the same time the harvest can be lost if in time not to take measure.
Why cabbage bursts?
The white cabbage is grown up on the majority of garden and garden sites, summer residents try to prepare it for the future to have opportunity in the winter to receive additional vitamins in food. As the disappointment when after vigilant leaving, waterings, pest control cabbage begins to burst and decay is big, without waiting for cleaning term.
In what the reason of this unpleasant phenomenon whether it is possible to avoid cracking of heads of cabbage – these questions for certain concern many unlucky gardeners.
Early grades of cabbage when maturing can burst. If you put them, be ready that these heads of cabbage need to be eaten first of all, otherwise at strong cracking the cabbage becomes unsuitable in food.
Try to land the different grades of cabbage corresponding to your current requirements – for the fresh use on the site and for salting it is necessary to use different seedling.
For salting and winter storage it is necessary to get grades, resistant to cracking, which have the srednepozdny and late term of maturing. Knim belong "Glory", "Gribovskaya No. 1", "Moscow late" and various modern selection novelties. Upon purchase of seeds surely read information on grade specified on packing. It is the most obvious reason of cracking, but there is a weight more of nuances when there can be similar situation. Treat them: Errors in leaving. It is necessary to remember that cabbage very much of vlagolyubiv, demands abundant regular watering, especially during increase of green material – in 2-3 days. Sharp changes of weather when heat is replaced by pouring rains, also do not do well qualities of heads of cabbage. In this case the amount of the moisture absorbed by cabbage changes, at the same time internal sheets actively begin to grow, and external are not in time behind growth therefore the head of cabbage bursts.
What to do if cabbage bursts?
If you have found cracked cabbage forks, surely examine also all other heads of cabbage growing on the site. Find out what could be the reason? If the fact is that the early grade is put, there is no nothing else left how to reap the harvest and to process it if you do not want heads of cabbage to have decayed on root. Try not to allow strong cracking, regularly look through plants and at the slightest signs cut down forks.
If head of cabbage there was small crack, it is possible to try to smooth out it sharp knife and to cover from moisture and dust. For short time this method will allow to avoid damage of cabbage.
When it is all about sharp change of weather and pouring rains, it is possible to try to reduce intake of moisture in head of cabbage from the soil. For this purpose it is necessary to undertake accurately head of cabbage two hands and to turn clockwise by 30-40 degrees. At the same time you will hear characteristic crunch. Small backs will be damaged, intake of moisture in plant will decrease. It is necessary to carry out this manipulation carefully, do not try to pull out plant from the soil, it has to grow further, until cleaning. One more way is to tear off the lower leaves on plant, having left one head of cabbage. It also changes distribution of moisture on plant, helps to avoid cracking. Do not forget that it is possible to use the above-stated methods if before its cutting out there was no more than a month. Anyway it is necessary as soon as possible to seek to process cabbage not to lose harvest.