Not only for salad will fit Chinese cabbage. How to grow this culture in our climate, what can be prepared from it, and also what exactly are its useful properties, we read further.
This type of cabbage is used not only in fresh form as a component of many salads loved by Russians. It is also boiled, stewed, fermented and even dried. Peking cabbage makes excellent cabbage soup, and a traditional Korean dish of kimcha will certainly please fans of this cuisine. The nutritional value of this culture is as high as that of the more familiar white tea, and its useful and even healing properties are even higher. It is advisable to add Chinese cabbage to people suffering from cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases in their diet, it strengthens the immune system and increases the body's resistance to infections.
And yet this culture is quite new to our country. In recent years, she regularly appears on store shelves. Now, gardeners are also interested in Beijing cabbage. Planting and caring for it have some nuances, without knowing which it is difficult to get a good harvest. It is precisely because of this that many people threw cultivating this precocious and highly productive vegetable. Even farmers should take a closer look at it. Peking cabbage grows well in winter heated greenhouses, and a short ripening period means that it is easy to harvest several crops a year. A slight fluctuation in store prices for this vegetable suggests that the market does not know an overabundance of this product, even in peak season. Planting Beijing cabbage in the spring provides earlier ripening and greater productivity than ordinary cabbage. The second time it can be planted at the end of July on the land, freed up after harvesting early vegetables, which allows you to reuse the area and get additional products.
We were convinced how tasty, healthy and profitable for cultivating such a crop as Beijing cabbage. How to grow it, we will tell further. This vegetable is very sensitive to indicators such as day length, heat and drought. Various varieties for spring or autumn growing periods have been bred. The main condition for both greenhouses and open ground is cultivation by the comb method, that is, planting seeds to a depth of 1-2 cm on the ridges. Do not forget about abundant watering at all times. And no hilling and grabbing the earth when weeding - does not like this Chinese cabbage.
How to grow a crop to get the maximum yield? In heated (sowing in early March) or film greenhouses (sowing in early August), although it grows in open ground. During spring planting, the first heads of cabbage can be cut off at the end of May, and at the second planting, at the beginning of October. Do not forget about the right choice of varieties. Only some of them can successfully grow in both periods.
So, if you know the features of agricultural technology, not so capricious culture - Beijing cabbage. How to grow it, in greenhouses or in the open ground, - choose for yourself. And get consistently plentiful harvests.