Want a bountiful harvest of cabbage? Grow beautiful seedlings
Cabbage - one of the main vegetables grown in the gardens. How to grow a large juicy cabbage? A healthy and strong seedlings - a pledge of rich harvest. This article will talk about how to grow cabbage seedlings.
What we need
The list below shows all the necessary for the cultivation of cabbage seedlings:
· Seed material;
· Containers for sowing;
· Easy nutritious soil;
· Film or plastic bag to cover the containers with seedlings;
· Pots;
· Spatula picks seedlings.
Everything you need can be purchased at specialty stores or ordered online.
Choosing varieties
Pre-need to determine the varieties of cabbage, which will be grown. The seeds must be bought in advance, because when suitable planting time in the stores may not be the right varieties.
The timing of maturation cabbage is divided into 2 main categories: early (precocious) and late (harvested for long term storage).
Experienced mistress often grow several varieties tested over the years. Early varieties consume the very first, as they are poorly stored and later harvested for the winter.
Popular early varieties: The June, Express Gift Kazachok. Popular varieties of late cabbage: The winter, Moscow later, Gingerbread, Sugar Loaf.
we grow seedlings
Before planting the seeds must be prepared. First you need to separate the good seed from the bad.
To do this, they are placed in slightly salted water. All the seeds are ejected surfaced.
The rest - well-dried, to prevent germination. Then, the seeds should be disinfected. This can be done in a slightly pink solution of potassium permanganate.
We begin sowing seeds
1. In a shallow, but wide container laid prepared substrate. soil level should not get to the edge of 1.5-2 cm. substratum well moistened;
2. The seeds need to sow in rows, separated by a distance of at least 2cm. After sowing container is tightened film and placed in a warm place;
3. After germination, they must be carefully thinned out with tweezers;
4. When the seedlings grow (about 3 weeks after sowing), they must be raspikirovat in separate pots.
Picks you need to carry out a wide spatula to capture the earthen room;
After picking the seedlings growing in pots before transplanting in the open ground.
When the seedlings are transplanted, they can feed complex fertilizer for cabbage seedlings.
Planted in open ground
Transplanting cabbage seedlings in open ground - responsible action.
This procedure is best done on a cloudy day, so that shoots better accustomed.
Before planting the pots well spill to earth com is not crumbled. In the open ground to make small holes for seedlings.
Some gardeners when transplanting pinch central root sprouts. It stimulates the growth of lateral roots.
Seedlings dug into the soil before cotyledon leaves and well watered.
If the seedlings were grown according to the rules, it is possible to hope for a good harvest.