Cabbage is considered one of the main vegetables on the Russian table, so in stores and in the markets it is sold all year round. But if you care about the health of your loved ones, then it is better to grow this plant yourself. Cabbage grown on industrial scale often contains pesticides - they go to it from chemical fertilizers used in the fields. It is not very difficult to grow cabbage, but for this first need to be stocking seedlings. It can be purchased on the market, and you can plant yourself.
How to plant cabbage to seedlings - selection and preparation of seeds
Cabbage varieties There is a lot, so you have to decide with this. Early, secondary, late - this is all white cabbage. In addition, you can buy colored cabbage seeds, broccoli, purple, Peking and the other. Buy seeds only in specialized stores and pay attention to their expiration date.
Prepare seeds before sowing - start doing it in a couple of weeks before disembarking them into the boxes.
- Lower the seeds into the water and throw away everything to be up. All seeds that sank to the bottom, gently select, blot with a paper towel and dry on the windowsill. Try to do not fall on them.
- Make a weakly pink solution of manganese and hold the seeds in it for 20 minutes. Again dried them. Manganese is needed to disinfect seeds.
- Seeds put in a canvas bag and place them for 10-14 days in the refrigerator. The cold challenges seeds, and cabbage in the future will not be afraid of temperature drops.
- A day before landing, warm the cabbage seeds. Put them on a battery or other electrical heater. It is desirable that the temperature be in the range of 50-60 degrees. Keep seeds warm 15-20 minutes.
- After heating the seeds right in the bag, put in the water room temperature and keep them in a liquid 12-20 hours. Seeds flush from severe moisture.
- Wet seeds spray 0.01% sodium humate solution - it will speed up the germination of seeds.
How to plant cabbage to seedlings - soil preparation
Buy a special soil for seedlings in the store or prepare it yourself. To do this, mix the ferrous land and humidia in equal amounts. Add wood ash to them. It takes 1 cup by 10 mixtures. Before disembarking in the soil of seeds, keep the ground in the room where it is not very cold. Cool storage room in an apartment or a warm basement in the house.
How to plant cabbage to seedlings - Definition of landing terms
When preparing seeds to the future landing, keep in mind that:
- Early grades can be heated since the beginning of March and to twentieth numbers (25-28).
- For varieties of medium maturation optimal, days from March 25 and until April 25 are considered.
- It is better to sow winter cabbage all in April - from the first numbers to twenties.
How to plant cabbage to seedlings - disembarking and double dive
The planting and dive of cabbage is as follows:
- Fill the drawer with a trained earthy mixture. Match it a little and paint it so that the top layer becomes humid enough.
- Space seeds on the ground. Try to do it evenly.
- Seeds sat down with dry earth and slightly press it with your palm. The top layer is not needed to water.
- Wait for seed shoots, and only then begin to water them. Do it carefully so that the box does not form a swamp. The land should be just wet. If there is a lot of water, then seedling can get sick "black leg."
- When the seedlings reach a height of 5-10 mm, ride them. To do this, use the tweezers or cut out the extra manicure scissors. Shoots thin so that approximately 2 square meters left for each left sprout. Soil.
- Two weeks after thinning, dissolve seedlings on individual cassettes of 3 * 3 cm - this stage is called dive. When diving, the future cabbage dock into the ground to the first seventeral leaves - these are the first to appear from the ground.
- After two weeks, one of the small cassettes, reoperate the gracee seedlings into individual peat cups - it will be the second phase of the dive.
- Grow cabbage seedlings in cups until it needs to plant in open ground. Do it usually for 60-65 days, after planting seeds in the boxes.
How to plant cabbage to seedlings - watering and highlighting
Cabbage loves water very much, so do not forget to water and its seedlings on time. Do it as the top layer of soil drying in cups. Also do not forget to highlight seedlings. For cabbage, light day should be 15-16 hours. Use special phytolamba or homemade designs from daylight lamps.
So that the cabbage in the future has grown healthy, its seedlings should also be the same. Watch a video in which experienced agronomas shares the secrets of good seedlings of cabbage.
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