When cultivating vegetables to ensure a good harvest is significant compliance with the timing of planting. Beginner farmers need to know when to plant cabbage on seedlings.
Terms of sowing cabbage for seedlings
When choosing the planting time for cabbage, seedlings should be based on a variety of vegetable culture. Early-ripening varieties of cabbage, which can ripen in early July, sow in late February or early March. Mid- and late-ripening varieties should be sown at the end of March. But this is only an approximate time frame. When sowing seeds of cabbage, seedlings are also taken into account in the specific climate in the area. Agrotechnicians recommend sowing cabbage for 50 - 60 days before the proposed planting of seedlings in the ground.
How to grow cabbage seedlings?
Sowing cabbage for seedlings produce in boxes or cups. The guarantee of a good harvest in the future will be the quality of the seed, so large seeds should be selected. It is recommended to lower seeds for 20 minutes in hot water (+ 45 ... + 50 degrees), and then a couple of minutes to hold them in cold water. Seeds are covered with a layer of soil no more than 1 centimeter. Immediately after planting the seedlings are watered, further watering is carried out as the earth dries up. The optimum temperature in the first week is +6 ... + 12 degrees.
Seedlings appear fairly quickly - on the 3rd - 5th day. A few days later, the boxes are identified in a warm place. The appearance of the first real leaf is a signal for diving, while the distance between the seedling bushes should be at least 6 cm. For the preservation of the root system it is better to use nutritious cubes or peat pots. The ground mix is prepared from peat (7 parts), humus (2 parts), turf and mullein (1 part of each component). A well-compacted mixture is cut into small layers, each approximately 6x6x6 cm in size. You can also use traditional cardboard or plastic cups filled with the above earth mix, but when growing seedlings of early cabbage, the nutrient cubes allow you to mature heads almost 2 weeks earlier, thanks to the integrity of the roots plants.
A week after the picking, the containers with seedlings are exposed to the greenhouse and fertilized. It is preferable to fertilize manure or bird droppings. It is possible to use urea or ammonium nitrate . It is recommended to keep the temperature in the hotbed at +14 ... + 18 degrees in the daytime, + 7 ... + 10 degrees at night. If the excessively high temperature in the greenhouse is required to ventilate the room, but exclude drafts. When the weather is warm, the greenhouse frames can be opened for a while.
In May, planted seedlings in the beds. The wells are located at a distance of 40 cm. First, about a liter of water is poured into the hole and a bush is planted directly into the mud. Up to the lower leaf, the plant is covered with soil.
Rules for growing and planting cabbage seedlings
- standard seedlings have no more than 5 true leaves;
- when picking, it is necessary to throw out seedlings that are weak, infected with a fungus or without apical buds;
- the water temperature when watering the seedlings should be 2 to 3 degrees higher than the temperature of the earth;
- Before planting seedlings a few days should keep the temperature in the greenhouse in the day close to the temperature of the air on the street;
- for landing, it is preferable to choose cloudy weather or evening time so that the culture can quickly take root;
- Place the planting on top of dry soil. This will prevent excessive evaporation of moisture and protect against the formation of an earth crust;
- in the first days of planting cabbage should be pritenyat.