That and at the big harvest you do not have to count on. In order for seedlings to be healthy and hardy, it is necessary to comply with all the requirements for the correct crop seed and care.

Before purchasing the planting material, decide which cabbage you want to receive ultimately, why and at what time it will be needed in the finished form. Did you want to use a young cabbage for the preparation of salads, or is it necessary for brewing and long winter storage? From the response to this question will depend on the selection of grade and docks.

Early variety white cabbage Give a small harvest. The weight of kochanov reaches 1.5 kg at a relatively small density. The middle cabbage can be either immediately eaten after harvesting, or use to prepare blanks for the winter in the form of packed. And late satisfying the best way Save your freshness throughout the cold period of the year.

The time to plant seedlings on the garden depends on the time of maturation of the vegetable. And the period in which seed landing is produced, depends on the time of transplant seedlings in open sad.

Sowing sowing cabbage seedlings - just like planting seedlings in open ground - produced in a period that depends on the weather characteristic of this climatic zone, and from the variety of vegetable.

The age of seedlings, fully prepared for landing in the soil, for each of its varieties.

1. Landing on a garden white cabbage early grades It is made for seedlings that have reached 45-60 days. For late species, the 35-day seedlings are enough. This rule also concerns red cabbage and hybrid varieties.
2. Before transferring a bed broccoli seedlings Must reach the age of 35-45 days.
3. Color cabbage Sit on the bed to achieve the 45-50-day age of seedlings. Brussels sprouts Located similarly.
4. Kohlrabi sitting at the age of 35 days, and seedlings savoy cabbage May "suffer" up to 50 days.

When you need to sow seeds to seed

Taking into account the timing of the seedling seedlings of different varieties of cabbage on the beds, produce time calculation of seeds. We give approximate deadlines for the middle strip.

1. Rannel white cabbage sow in March 10-25. At the same time, sowing hybrid varieties and red cabbage. The secondary and late types of similar varieties are sowed on April 10-15.
2. Landing material of broccoli is evisted several times. The time interval between the crops is 15-20 days. The first time sow in the second decade of March, and the last time - in the third decade of May. Similarly come with a cauliflower.
3. The seeds of Brussels cabbage are planted in the second half of April.
4. If you want to collect Kohlrabi's cabbage early, make sowing in the second decade of March. Kohlrabi seeds also sow seed several times. But it is not recommended to do it after June. When complying with all rules, you can immediately plant seeds in open soil.
5. Savoy cabbage early varieties is evinted from 10 to 20 March. Sowing secondary species is better to implement from 10 to 20 April, and later - in the first days of the month.

How to prepare cabbage seeds for sowing

To a great extent, the success of the future harvest of cabbage depends on good seedlings, and it, in turn, is obtained from high-quality seeds, so get the sowing material of the best quality.

Before planting seeds, you must prepare them. At the stage of sowing seeds, it is possible to significantly reduce the likelihood of cabbage in the future in further serious diseases, which will allow to get healthy and enduring seedlings.

When purchasing the seeding material already processed (which is usually indicated on the sachet with seeds), it is only necessary to hold them 20 minutes in water, heated to + 50 ° C. You can eliminate the likelihood of fungal diseases of the cabbage, if within 5 minutes after heating, cool them in cold water.

Note! Some cabbage varieties do not require seed wetting before disembarking. Be sure to take into account this moment.

Soak seeds - a classic method for accelerating their germination

How to prepare the soil for sowing cabbage seeds

The cabbage can be obtained if it is competent to produce a nutritional mixture of soil. Earth for seedlings is best prepared in the fall. Permissible, but it is less desirable to prepare a mixture immediately before sowing seeds.

Take one part of the turf and humus, a small amount of ash (10 tablespoons per 10 kg of soil) and how to stir. The ash here not only supplies the soil with the useful elements, but also warns the appearance of the black leg in the seedlings due to its antiseptic properties.

The land should be treated with water with a small amount of manganese for disinfection. When preparing the soil, it is necessary to adhere to the acidity indicator equal to or close to neutral.

Of course, it is possible to make an earthen composition both on the basis of turf and on the basis of other nutrient ingredients, such as peat, for example. The resulting primer mixture should be well to pass the air and be fertile.

On a note! Suitable for seedling cabbage soil can be found on sale. For these purposes, not only the soil intended directly for cabbage is suitable. It is allowed to use and universal soil. Earth from your garden is unsuitable, since when it is used, the risk of infection of seedlings is increasing.

Step-by-step instructions for the right sowing cabbage seeds

Seedlings cabbage better fit in the open ground, if producing. It will also have a positive effect on the volume of its root system, and the plants themselves will be stronger.

Table. Instructions for growing cabbage seedlings.

Steps, photos	Description of action
	Cabbage seeds immediately after sowing need large quantities Waters, so before their landing, the soil must be abundantly moistened. And after sowing, it does not follow the cabbage until the appearance of the first germs to prevent the infection with a black leg.
	The seed material is planted in the prepared containers.
	After the appearance of shoots, they are thinned. As a result, a free space of about 20 × 20 mm should appear around each shoot.
	After 14 days, the seedlings are picked. For this, they are planted into separate cassettes with cells of about 30 × 30 mm, deepening stalks to the level of the cotyledon.
	After another 2 weeks, the seedlings again transplanted in a container with an area of \u200b\u200babout 50 × 50 mm. For these purposes, plastic cups are suitable, previously treated with any solution that prevents the development of fungus (for example, copper sulphum), or a peat pot.

If you do not plan to spend the seedlings of the cabbage, it is recommended to immediately plant seeds in a separate container. Then its roots achieved the necessary size, and the transfer to open soil will take place in the most gentle.

Lighting, temperature and watering Cabbage seedlings

For growing strong and autonous plants, it is necessary to provide seedlings with additional lighting, as in rooms where it usually grows, not enough light. For the purposes of the backlight, a conventional daylight lamp is suitable, which should cover cabbage from 12 to 15 hours daily.

Watering seedlings is produced when the surface of the soil dries. Cabbage is a moisture-loving plant. But with an excess of moisture, a disease of the black leg may develop or drop the roots. To harde the cabbage seedlings and prevent moisture to prevent moisture, it is recommended to air the room after irrigation.

Before the first shoots of the white cabbage appear, it is necessary to maintain the temperature from + 18 ° C to + 20 ° C. Then, for young sprouts, the optimal temperature will be the temperature of the day from + 15 ° C to + 17 ° C, and at night from + 8 ° C to + 10 ° C. Such a large variation of temperatures is necessary to strengthen seedlings and prevent their pulling.

For cauliflower, the same rule is applicable, but the average temperature should be higher. Exceeding should be 5-7 ° C with respect to those night and daytime temperatures that are maintained when growing white cabbage seedlings. If this is not observed, then the crop will be worse, and inflorescences - less in size.

If speak about middle lane, Watermelons here (as well as some other cultures - for example, melon) is preferable to grow through seedlings. In fact, there is nothing complicated in this process, the main thing is to know, and how to do it.

How to make a cubber seedlings

During the period of growing seedlings, cabbage must be fed. Total such feeders need to be made from three to four times.

For the first time, feeding is carried out when the seedlings are sufficiently rooted after holding a dive. As a rule, this period is from week to ten days. The feeder is made using the following composition: 1 g of potassium chloride, 4 g of superphosphate, 2.5 g of ammonium nitrate to 1 l heated to a warm state of water. The composition of urea diluted in 10 liters of water in the amount of one tablespoon is suitable. Stress caused by planting of plants is well neutralized by a feeder cooked from chicken litter (or cow) and water in the proportion of 1:10.

The second time the seedlings are fed from 12 to 14 days after the first feeding took place. To do this, the seedlings are irrigated by a mixture of 4 g of nitrate ammonia on 1 liter of water.

For the third time, feeding is carried out in seven days before the transfer of seedlings into open ground. Fertilizer is made bird litter (or cowboat) or the following composition is used: 3 g of ammonium nitrate, 2 g of potassium chloride, 8 g of superphosphate on 1 liter of water.

On a note! Additionally, you can feed the seedlings with a fertilizer prepared on the basis of yeast. To do this, divorces from 50 to 70 g of yeast in 5 liters of water. After 1-2 days, it is possible to irrigate this mixture.

Video - Sowing cabbage to seedlings

When planting cabbage, it is necessary to take into account weather conditions, or rather the air temperature. If the cappist is seated with a seedler, then when it falls into an open soil, the soil temperature must be at least 15 degrees. This will significantly increase the survival rate of plants and will allow them to develop correctly. This temperature is usually installed in the middle of May. Therefore, the late and average cabbage varieties are put into open soil no earlier than this period. It should also be considered the fact that late cabbage falls in the fall must be subjected to the impact of night frosts. And they, as a rule, begin in early October. Ripening time late cabbage lasts about 4.5 months. Consequently, to plant a late cabbage in 2018 in open soil you need at the end of May.

What concerns early cabbage, it is withstanding a lower temperature. Therefore, it can be attached to the open primer in late April - early May. Of course, B. different regions These deadlines may differ, but the main thing is that the soil temperature is higher than +10 degrees. After the cabbage takes place, any frosts are not scared.

To determine more accurate landing rates in the open ground in 2018, it is necessary to apply for help to the lunar calendar of gardeners and gardens.

The most favorable days in 2018 for planting cabbage to open ground

Most best time For landing of any plants is a growing moon. In April 2018 she will from 17 to 29. It is these days that all gardeners can plant an early cabbage. Well, the most favorable time For this, 28, April 29th.

In May Such a moon will be from 16 to 28. At this time, you need to start landing late cabbage. Self favorable days For this comes from May 24 to 27.

Also late and middle cabbage in some regions are still planted in June. This month is ideal for planting cabbage such days: 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 June. Later planting cabbage into open soil is undesirable, since plants of this culture will not have time to mature until the winter.

Belococcal cabbage relates to a group of vegetables that all gardeners are definitely planted on their sites. Her varieties are divided into early and late. The first type of plants consume immediately after harvesting, and the second look hide for the winter (Quasse or Canned).

Information about culture

Capportean hybrids with late maturation dates belong to the detachment of cruciferous plants. For the first 12 months of life, the plant forms a Kochan, and in the following year releases an arrow on which seeds are formed.

Typical vegetable indicators look like this:

• Roots in white cabbage branched pretty much. They are deepened in the ground by 0.3-0.5 m.
• The timing of the ripening of hybrids, from seedlings to harvest, fluctuate from 120-130 to 145 days. If the seedlings are germinated from seeds, then this time increases to 180-190 days.
• Late varieties range from 4 to 10 kg (weight of one Kochan).
• They are stored without adopting special measures from 3 to 8 months.
• Broken cabbage does not accumulate nitrates. She is afraid of night-night frosts.

Consume a vegetable for the preparation of various salads, quassers, can be preserved with the fruits of other plants.

Late cabbage

The best varieties of late species of white cabbage are considered:

• dutch hybrid aggressor grown in almost all regions of Russia;
• belarusian grade Mara, it can be stored up to 6 months;
• Moscow late cabbage (head has a weight of up to 10 kg);
• AMEGER has a juicy kochan, suitable for chairs;
• Snow White is used for baby foodmay remain up to 8 months;
• Megaton refers to hybrids that have immunity from fungal infection;
• Kolobok matures in 150 days, it opposes such diseases as fusariosis and rot;
• grade wintering is declined specifically for long storageBut it can be applied for both.

Important! If the garden lives in the middle lane or the northern regions of Russia, then all these types of white-born late cabbage are recommended to grow seedl. When the garden is in the southern regions of the country, then under the appropriate conditions, it is possible to get a crop of straight sowing seeds on the bed.

Methods and dates of landing

After selecting a particular hybrid to obtain the desired result, you need to select the right place for the vegetable. It is recommended to pick up the land rich in an organica.

Important! For white cabbage, only a loamy soil having neutral acidity is suitable. The preparation of the soil is carried out in the fall during the rescue or before planting plants in the spring period.

Beginner gobblers are often interested when it is a late cabbage into an open ground, which method is to do. This vegetable can be grown as a seaside, and without it.

Cabbage seeds need to be purchased from a proven manufacturer. After that, they are treated in a weak mortar solution to enhance immunity.

Planting cabbage

To obtain seedlings, the prepared material is seeded in March or April, focusing on moon calendar. It is better if during this period in the region there will be no night frosts characteristic of most regions of Russia.

Important!Belococcal cabbage can not be planted for 2 years in a row on the same land. The best predecessors are plants: carrots, onions, legumes, tomatoes, cucumbers.

To harde the seeds of the vegetable hold 1/3 h in hot water, 60 seconds - in cold. The material is then lowered until the morning in the growth amplifier solution. After that, shifted on a rag and sent to the fridge, where they are still 24 hours. After hardening the seeds of white-baked cabbage produce sowing in the box or in the bed.

The landing of the processed material is made in the soil, which consists of humus, river sand and peat. In the southern regions, cabbage seeds are directly planted on the beds if the air temperature is greater than 15 ° C. Most early time Direct sowing to Earth - mid-April or beginning of May. It is chosen depending on the weather conditions in the area of \u200b\u200bthe gardener of the garden. If the temperature sharply decreases at night, the lane planted on the bed of seeds must be closed with a protective film. If this is not done, the whole crop of white cabbage will die.

The depth on which sowing material should be sown is selected in the range of 20-30 mm. The beds are watered with warm water. If there is a danger of infection with fungi, then the soil is treated with a weak solution of manganese. After planting the sowing material, the sprouts will appear after 7-10 days. They are fed by potash and nitrogen fertilizers. When 3-4 leafs appear on the saplings, the plants need to be switched.

In other areas of the country, the seedlings are obtained by landing of the treated sowing material into separate pots. This makes it possible to exclude a dive procedure from the list of works.

If there are no separate containers, then use the box. Seeds plant in it according to a 20 x 20 mm scheme. After that, the container is covered with film, and then transferred to the room where the temperature is maintained at a level not lower than 19 ° C. When the first sprouts will be crushed, the film is cleaned. The drawer is transferred under artificial lightingAnd the temperature in the room is reduced to 10 ° C. Middle day for seedlings is maintained at 12-14 hours. Sprouts water every 4 days warm waterBy adding a little superphosphate and potash fertilizer to the soil.

To find out when to plant a late cabbage to open ground sediment, you need to carefully observe the development of plants. They will be ready for transplanting in beds when at least 4-5 leaves are formed on each seedlings.

Important!If the garden lives in a chernozem, then he must take into account the fact that the seedlings of white cabbage are transferred to the beds when it turns 30 days.

For 14-15 days before the specified landing period, the seedlings are performed. For this box with sprouts transfer to a balcony or street. There they must be 8-10 hours per day.

Further care

Care of white cabbage is starting with fertilizer seedlings. You can grow full-fledged kochens, giving them nutrients 3 times over the entire season of vegetation.

Exercise as follows:

• the first time the seedlings are made in the development of 5 leaves on them (if the plants are planted on open beds) or 15 days after the seedlings landing;
• the next feeding is made when the outlets are formed;
• last - during the formation of Kochan.

For these procedures, organic mixtures (manure, chicken litter) or preparations such as terraflex, Raxolin ABS are used.

For cabbage need good care

It is necessary not only to plant the seedlings of white cabbage, but also save seedlings from weeds. For this, beds are plunged 2 times a month. The first time the procedure is performed in 21 days after plant landing, and then after 14-15 days. Gerbicides Lontrela and Butzan are used against weed herbs.

The soil on the beds is mounted in a peat, a layer of which should be at least 4-5 cm. Hybrids like watering and loosening. Irrigation is made 1 time per week. It is advisable to spend this operation in the early morning. IN different periods Ripening of white cabbage on the irrigation of seedlings leaves from 19 to 60 m³ of water.

Important!Watering produce warm, resistant under the sunny water. After each moisture session, the soil should be carried out.

To protect plants from the disease, the black leg is recommended to use a weak solution of potassium mangartage. It is poured on plants every 15 days. The cabbage quilt and other diseases are eliminated using special antifungal and antibacterial drugs. How to apply them, you can learn from the annotation to these substances applied to the package.

With garden pests are struggling as follows:

• muh kill Bazudin medicine;
• beyanok caterpillars, Tlya and Pollocks exterminate insecticides Spark, Sampai, Nokdown, Inta-Vir;
• slug is scared wood ash or metaldehyde and copper vigorous drugs.

For preventing insects and various diseases It is possible to handle the beds with sowing biological substances of agroventine, phytodeter and other drugs like them.

Important!Diseases and pests appear in the garden almost simultaneously, so the struggle with one evil brings success to eliminate other danger.

Cabbage harvesting

The kochens of white late grades are recommended to be removed to achieve full maturity. Only in this case it is possible to preserve the harvest in full. When collecting vegetables, it is not necessary to wait for the onset of autumn frosts. Although hybrids can move a slight decrease in air temperature, it is better to remove the obtained harvest in the last few days or the first week of October.

After cutting, they are placed in the cellar or cool room, where the temperature does not rise more than 8 ° C. Vegetables pre-examine that there are no traces of bacterial contamination. If damaged sheets are detected, they need to be removed from Kochan, otherwise they will imagine all other specimens

Even the novice gardener can grow the desired harvest of the late white-baked cabbage, if it comes to growing seedlings. Plant care is nested, the main thing is to carry out irrigated and other agrotechnical events in time.

Depending on the ripening period, the cabbage differ and the timing of it is sowing - remember this.

2. Purchase quality seeds

Not least from the seed will depend on the quality of the seedlings, and therefore the crop of cabbage. Therefore, take a good sowing material.

On how to buy seeds properly, not to purchase an overdue, lost to the germination due to improper storage or in general the counterfeit sowing material is described in detail in publications:

3. Preparation of the correct soil

To grow strong cabbage seedlings, you need to properly prepare a nutritional soil. Ideally, the soil for cabbage seedlings need to be prepared from autumn, but if for some reason you did not have time to do this, you can draw up now. Mix 1 pieces of the turf land and, add a bit (10 tbsp. Spoons for every 10 kg of soil) and mix the substrate well. In this case, the ash will be the source of not only micro and macroelements, but also an excellent antiseptic that can prevent the appearance on the cabbage seedlings.

Of course, you can prepare any other nutrient soil mixture - not only on the basis of the turf, but also, for example. The main thing is that the resulting soil is breathable and fertile. And also, preparing the soil mixture for the cabbage seedlings, never use the garden land, which previously grown cruciferous cultures: it certainly has infections characteristic of cabbage, and the likelihood of getting seedlings increases at times.

And in this video, our expert Tatyana shares his experience of compiling soil for seedlings:

As you can see, the land from the garden is really undesirable.

Want to know about the subtleties of compilation of soil for seedlings even more? Then read these articles:

4. Choosing the optimal period of sowing cabbage seedlings

It makes no sense to sow seedlings of cabbage in early January - it is too early, or at the end of May is too late. This capital truth knows every gardener. But, at least, approximate timing of seeds are known to us, sometimes it is difficult to determine a specific date. Let's all in order.

Remember:

• early grades cabbage should be seized in seedlings from the beginning of March to about 25-28 months,
• seeds of medium grades can be sowing approximately from March 25 to April 25,
• well, cabbage late varieties from the beginning to the 20th of April.

If such a duration of sowing cabbage seeds seem overly blurred and incomprehensible, then you will appreciate the recommendations from the article - it describes the algorithm to help calculate optimal deadlines Sowing precisely for your conditions.

Well, I will give another hint: Determine the period of sowing cabbage to seedlings can be based on the fact that from time to seeding seeds before the appearance of germs goes around 10 days (plus-minus a couple of days), and from the appearance of shoots before the disembarkation must pass 50-55 days. Based on this, it is necessary to sow cabbage to seedlings for 60-65 days until the desired landing in the ground.

Choose seeds for sowing cabbage to seedlings will help you with our market, where the proposals of the largest online stores are collected. .

Thanks to non-good manipulations, you can almost exclude dangerous cabbage diseases (such as a black leg, and so on) already in a repentance, and therefore it is necessary to grow healthy and strong seedlings.

If you have already purchased seeds (this must be indicated on the package), it will be enough to warm them up 20 minutes in hot water (at a temperature of about +50 ° C). Warming up seeds, 5 minutes Cool them in cool water - so you will increase the resistance of the cabbage to various fungal diseases. Just keep in mind: you can not wet all seeds processed by the manufacturer! For some species, this is completely unacceptable, therefore, so as not to be mistaken, read about which applies, and what are their features.

6. Right sowing

It would seem that there is to bother: the seed bought, I prepared the soil and go ahead - this, as you want. Not certainly in that way. In order to seed out the cabbage was strong and chorenist, it is better to grow it from - only then the volume of its roots will be large, the seedlings themselves will grow more squat and strong, and it is easier to transplant to a permanent place. How to sow cappist?

Seeds of early cabbage must be sown in a tray or set. Before sowing the soil, we pour out well, and we try more not to moisten until shoots appear - this will warn the disease of the seedlings with a black leg. Why water the soil before sowing abundantly? The thing is that for germination, cabbage seeds need a lot of water - about 50% of their weight.

When shoots appear, they need, after leaving each aircraft area of \u200b\u200bapproximately 2x2 cm. After 2 weeks, when the seedlings are already growing a little, they need to dive, sozhaya according to the 3x3 cm scheme, for example, in the cassette. Piking, do not forget to shower the stem seedlings to the cotyledon! After another half months, the seedlings need to transplant again, but already in pots (peat pots, plastic or paper cups or any other) - ideally the size of the new capacity should be 5x5 cm.

Before picking seedlings, the cups are desirable to be treated with weak (blue in color) with a solution or any other drug that prevents the appearance of mushroom diseases.

If you do not have the desire to dive cabbage, then it is better to initially sow it into separate pots. When the time to land the seedlings at a permanent place, her root system It will be large, and due to the fact that plants have grown to transplant in individual pots, it is almost not injured (there will be a transplant).

7. Light for seedlings

In order for the seedlings of the cabbage ripening strong and chorenist, it is not enough to plant it correctly - it is necessary to carry out it, because there is little ordinary daylight at home the cabbage. With the help of an ordinary fluorescent lamp, we have a seedlings of about 12-15 hours per day.

8. Timely irrigation

"Cabbage loves water yes good weather" - this saying-approval is equally true both in relation to the courageous kaban, and in relation to its seedlings.

Cabbage is rightfully considered one of the oldest cultivated cultures. Today it is represented by about ten species, and those, in turn, consist of varieties of different maturation terms. Cool resistance, high yield, widespread use in cooking and "Personality" are the reason that the cabbage in its importance rose into one row with potatoes and tomatoes. However, it is worth noting that some gardeners do not hold the timing of this culture at all, but prefer to plant everything and immediately.

But it is the early cabbage that gives us the opportunity to receive vitamins and trace elements in the middle of summer. And if you grow it with a seaside, then the duration of ripening due to this will come even faster.

Hardly the advantage of early varieties can be considered high yield, and about storage in winter In this case, there can be no speech. But in almost every garden, you can find a small piece of Earth allocated for several early kochenes. After all, no one can refuse the pleasure to try the first salad in the middle of the summer.

The most common varieties that ripen for 100-120 days include:

If you grow them across seedlings, you can closer the timing of ripening for a few weeks, in connection with which ensure Preferences most of the gardens.

Features of repentrating cultivation

In fact, all varieties of cabbage are grown with the help of seedlings on the same technology, and differences can be only in unimportant nuances. But regardless of whether early varieties or late, work begins with the preparation of seeds: they need to be sorted, then move, that is, to soak in hot water for twenty minutes, then two more in cold. At the end of the seeds should be carefully dried.

Important information! Only the seeds of "their" production are needed, while grains purchased in the store do not need to prepare, because it has already made the manufacturer himself.

When to plant an early cabbage to seedlings?

If we talk about differences between cabbage varieties, you should not forget that the seeds should be sown only with regard to climatic features Region and individual characteristics of a specific type of culture. Sowing seeds must be carried out for a certain period of time, after which the seedlings can be transplanted into the open soil. Thus, the seeding time will look approximately as follows.

Table. For how many days about the transplant needs to plant cabbage

Name of varieties	The time through which the transplant is made (in the days)
	From 45 to 60
	From 30 to 35
	From 30 to 50
	From 35 to 45
	From 45 to 50 days

Based on this information, an approximate seeding time can be determined.

1. Early varieties of red and white cabbage should be sow from 10 to 25 March.
2. For broccoli and cauliflower optimal time For sowing is the period from the last numbers of March to the beginning of June. What is characteristic, here you should immediately make several crops, and the interval between them should be 15-20 days.
3. The Savoy cabbage is better to plant from the second half of December to April, and the early grades should be planted first.
4. The best time for the sowing of Brussels cabbage is considered to be the middle - the end of April.
5. Finally, Kohlrabi's cabbage falling at the beginning of March, thanks to which you can get early greens. Although if desired, this process can be continued until the end of April.

Now, having familiarized with the theory, you can proceed to practice, that is, the cabbage falling on the seedlings.

Seeding and cultivation procedure

Regardless of the selected variety of cabbage and specific seeding, you must find the time to pre-prepare the soil. It is important that the soil is loose and moisture-permeable, so it is mandatory to take care of the sand, nerd earth and peat.

In addition, decide in advance whether you will resort to picking or try to avoid so traumatic for the root system of young events. It is worth noting that the technology of both methods is almost the same, and the differences are only incorrect nuances.

Method first. Using picking

The algorithm of action in this case should look something as follows.

Step one. Take a large deep box and fill it in advance prepared soil. Thoroughly strip the surface of the soil, then pour it.

Step second. Do the shallow furrows. Place the seeds of early cabbage in these furrows, while observing the step between them about one or two centimeters.

Step Three. Pour the planting material with a small number of soil, after which it is slightly sinking it. Place the box on the sunny window sill, try to maintain the temperature in the room within 18-20 degrees.

Step fourth. When the first shoots will be shossed (and this, as a rule, happens somewhere five days after sowing), reduce the temperature to 8-9 degrees.

Pitch fifth. Two weeks later, dive the seedlings into small individual containers with dimensions of approximately 7x7 centimeters. Remove seedlings with the soil, try not to damage young roots.

Step Six. For several days, withstand seedlings at a temperature of about 17-18 degrees, then you can reduce this indicator to 10-12 (at night) and 13-14 degrees (day).

Important information! Do not forget that seedling cabbage is extremely demanding on the lighting, so care for it should consist, including from additional highlighting. In the open soil, the additional backlight is not required, so the task is simplified noticeably.

The method of the second. Without using picking

In fact, there are no essential features in terms of sowing or conditions here, since it is all identical to the previous way. The only difference is that the role of tanks for landing should be used by eating containers with cassettes or, as an option, peat / coconut pills, the seeds will be squeezed inside.

In the absence of such a container, a simple box is quite suitable, which will need to be divided inside the "compartments" with the help of any partitions.

And in the process of care of the seedy of early cabbage, you must:

• comply with thermal / light mode;
• periodically ventilated with seedlings;
• moderately water when the top layer of the soil will be filled;
• order seedlings before planting in the garden.

Video - how to sow cabbage to seedlings

Cabbage seedlings transplantation

Any experienced gardene will say that it is possible to grow this culture in one place for a maximum of two or three years, after which the site should "relax" somewhere five years.

If speak about Cabbage predecessors, That is the best of them:

• tomatoes;
• potatoes;
• beet;
• beans;
• cucumbers.

Select a well-starving area for landing. Do not forget that the plant reacts perfectly to organic type feeders - put them in spring time, and in the first year (if it comes to early) or in the second (if about later).

The landing scheme itself depends on a particular variety and should look something as follows.

1. Early red and white grades should be planted according to the 30x40 centimeters scheme.
2. As for the Savoy cabbage, this indicator should correspond to 70-50 (late / medium grades) and 70x30 centimeters (early).
3. Broccoli must be planted according to the 40x60 scheme (to grow side shoots) or 20x50 centimeters (the heads grow).
4. For early grades, Kohlrabi should use a diagram of 25x35 centimeters.
5. For Brussels, cabbage is 60x70 centimeters.
6. Finally, color cabbage It should be planted in a checker order, approximately every 35-40 centimeters (although you can use a 2x50 centimeters scheme).

After the "moving" of plants to the garden, the care of them, of course, will not end. You should continue to periodically water the cabbage, explode the soil and make a timely fertilizer.

Features of watering

With special care, watering seedlings immediately after the transplantation. The interval between irrigation should be on average two or three days. Apply about eight liters of water for each square meter Groin. In the future, water is not so often, but more abundant.

Explosion of soil

Try to keep looser after every rain, but do not do it too deep - no more than six to eight centimeters. The fact is that the root system in the cabbage is placed superficially.

Three days after the transplant, make the exhaustion of seedlings, subsequently repeat this procedure once every eight to ten days.

Making fertilizers

The first thing you have to do is to build up a green mass. In connection with this, three weeks after the transplant, start making feeding. In general, for all the development time, feeding should be made no more than three or four times.

Video - Features of early cabbage breeding