Cabbage is a healthy garden plant. Having grown it in your garden, you can treat yourself and your family with all sorts of goodies, such as cabbage rolls, sauerkraut and a variety of salads.
How to grow cabbage so that it really gives a harvest?
First you need to choose the right place for its landing. It should be a spacious place, without a shadow. It is advisable that 4 years before the upcoming planting, cabbage does not grow there. Best if legumes or onions were grown there.
Cabbage loves moisture, which is why the soil for planting it is necessary to choose structural, previously well fertilized. Watering the plants should be carried out often enough, but in small doses. After all, the plant itself loves moisture, but if moistened with copious doses, the amount of yield may decrease.
If you want to grow early cabbage, then you should buy seedlings or grow it yourself from seeds. Seedlings are first planted a short distance and do this in the first decade of March. A little later, it is dived, increasing distances, so that in the future cabbage can grow freely.
You can buy medium-sized cabbage both in seeds and in seedlings. Seeds are planted immediately in the ground, in greenhouses or greenhouses. The first watering of medium-sized cabbage can be done only after the seedlings have taken root, or several leaves have appeared on the plant grown from seeds.
Later varieties of cabbage are planted immediately in the ground. This happens at the end of May or at the end of June, depending on the seedlings, as well as weather conditions. Plants of the late variety are best planted immediately in the ground, without growing seedlings or using greenhouses. But if everything is clear with white cabbage, then many are interested in how to grow cauliflower, which is known for its useful properties.
How to grow cauliflower ?
Cauliflower is a little picky because of its weak root system, especially when compared to white cabbage. Growing in greenhouses can begin in the month of January, using only precocious varieties for this. First seedlings are grown, and then, in early March, plants are planted in prepared soil, which must first be fertilized. Often only farmers are engaged in such cultivation, subsequently transferring their products.
How to grow cauliflower in the open ground for your own needs? First, on June 20, seedlings are grown from seeds and after 30 days they are transplanted into the open ground. Harvest will be obtained in late September - early October. Planting a crop earlier in the open ground is not worth it, since it does not tolerate heat. It is necessary to water often, but in small quantities and preferably not cold, but with warm water, since the roots are sensitive to sudden changes in temperature.
Cabbage is selected as it ripens, observing that the heads do not crack and any diseases wound up in them. If suddenly the cabbage did not have time to ripen, and the temperature dropped below 0, then it can be gently emptied and transplanted into the greenhouse. If the vegetative system of a plant is well developed, it will certainly take root and ripen. Of course, on the question of how to grow cabbage, there may be many more minor nuances, but they are learned from experience. And as you know, everyone in this world has their own experience!