White cabbage can be eaten both fresh (in salads), and in boiled, fried, as well as pickled and salted. Many wonderful summer residents grow this wonderful plant in their plots. Further in the article, we will consider how to grow mid-season and early cabbage.
Of course, first of all, it is necessary to carefully prepare the seeds for planting. In order to subsequently obtain seedlings strong and resistant to frost, planting material should be pre-soaked in a nutrient solution. For this, a little less than half a tablespoon of nitrophoska is bred in one liter of water. Seeds should be lowered into this mixture for half a day. Next, it is worth tempering them a bit by putting them in the refrigerator for a day.
The answer to the question of how to grow cabbage, first of all, comes down to how to get strong and healthy seedlings. Seeds for this must be planted in a neutral or slightly acidic soil, well fertilized with organic matter. The fact is that cabbage is very sensitive to the amount of nutrients in the soil. Early varieties are best planted on seedlings around mid-March. Mid-season - in mid-April. After the first two leaves appear on the plant, they are dived into separate containers. At the same time, you need to try to make sure that each bush is buried in the ground to cotyledon leaves.
Next, consider how to grow cabbage in the open ground. Seedlings of mid-ripening varieties will best be transferred to the soil from May 10 to June 1. Early ripe cabbage is planted on the beds in late April or early May. When choosing a place, it is worth considering that the plant is photophilous. It will be impossible to get a good crop in the shade.
Answering the question of how to grow a good cabbage crop, many experienced summer residents advise to fertilize the soil with organic matter before planting seedlings on the beds. The easiest way to take the usual well-rotted manure (4 kg per 1 m 2 ). It is also very good to introduce mineral fertilizers into the soil. For this, regular ash is perfect. It can be simply scattered before digging in the garden, or you can add a tablespoon to each well when planting seedlings.
Cabbage is planted at a distance of about slightly less than half a meter between rows and 20 cm between bushes. The depth of the hole should be about 10 cm. Bushes with a height of 15–20 cm and a stem thickness of about 4 mm are considered the best planting material. Overgrown seedlings will not be accepted very well. It should also be borne in mind that recently planted plants do not tolerate low temperatures too well. And therefore, seedlings are best for the first time with the danger of spring frosts covered with a film.
Basically, in the middle zone of our country, the methods for growing this plant are similar. But sometimes summer residents are interested in whether there are any nuances when leaving in certain areas? For example, how to grow cabbage in the suburbs? Of course, success in this case will primarily depend on how correctly selected plant variety. Of the Moscow region of early-ripening varieties are well suited, for example, June and Polyarnaya. From mid-season - Slava-1 and Belorusskaya-455. To get a good late-grade crop for pickling, you should buy Amager-611 or Kharkov winter seeds.
So you now know how to grow cabbage. Fertilize the plants two to three times per season with a solution of mullein 1: 10, with a frequency of about once every two weeks. The first top dressing is done ten days after the seedlings are transferred to the open ground. Water the cabbage twice a week.