How do I feed Cabbage at the end of August so that the heads of cabbage are tight and Large

It is a pity when it is possible to grow a seemingly good cabbage, protecting it all season from diseases and pests, and getting loose or not large enough heads.

However, August is not the final month for the growth of mid to late maturing cabbage species. Just during this period, active growth of the cabbage head occurs.

And competent feeding of cabbage at the end of August can have a huge positive impact on the crop.

As you know, for the formation and growth of cabbage heads, most of all, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium are needed.

Therefore, at the end of August, I feed my cabbage as follows:

1. I carry out root dressing with a solution containing potassium sulfate, superphosphate and nitrophosphate (1 tbsp. l. each for 10 liters of water). This amount of fertilizer is usually enough for 1 sq. m of my beds.

2. I spray cabbage leaves with a solution of magnesium sulfate (15 g per ten-liter bucket of water).

Such feeding, in addition to obtaining the necessary nutrients for cabbage, significantly improves its storage capacity.

3. If I need to feed such types of cabbage as broccoli or cauliflower, then I use the same methods, but halve the concentration of minerals in the solution.

4. I also fertilize broccoli and cauliflower with a mullein, dissolved in water 1/5. I pour about a liter of this fertilizer under each cabbage bush.

My neighbor in the country, being an opponent of any purchased mineral fertilizers, feeds her cabbage exclusively with natural means. In late August, she uses wood ash and mullein.

She prepares top dressing simply: dissolves a glass of ash and a pound of mullein in a ten-liter bucket of water. Insists for about a day and waters his mid-season and late cabbage with the calculation: 6 liters of fertilizer per 1 sq. m. She takes ash obtained exclusively from deciduous trees (especially birch).

I read on the Internet that wood ash contains a large amount of compounds of potassium and phosphorus. Moreover, it is in such a form that cabbage is well absorbed.

Ash is rich in other valuable trace elements, as well as mullein. Therefore, last year I tried this top dressing on some of my cabbage plantings.

The result came out almost identical to what I got in my old way.

Thanks to such simple feeding of cabbage plants at the end of August, I have been getting a very decent harvest for many years. Cabbage heads grow tough, large, tasty and stored for a long time.