Cabbage seedlings: the secrets of growing

Cabbage sprouts are best for growing in small greenhouses or greenhouses. Houses in peat cups seedlings of cabbage will also grow, but caring for it will be much more difficult. But still this method has the right to exist.

Cultivation of seedlings of cabbage begins with the preparation of seeds. They should be disinfect for the prevention of any disease, which can damage your seedlings. Plant the dried seeds in large boxes.

Sow the seeds in a loose soil mixture to a depth of 0.5 to 1 cm. The width between the rows should be 3-4 cm. Before emergence, the box with earth should be kept at a temperature of about 18-20 ° C. As soon as seedlings appear, the box followsTo take out in a premise where the temperature keeps within the limits of 6-8 ° С. Leave there shoots for 4-5 days. A short drop in temperature gives you a guarantee that your cabbage seedlings will not stretch, and the plants will be strong. Then the daytime temperature should be raised to 14-18 ° C. The night temperature should range from 6-10 ° C.

Cabbage sprouts can be grown both with the subsequent diving of plants, and without it. Diving of cabbage seedlings is already taking place12-14 days after emergence. At this time, the cotyledonous leaflets are completely open and the first real leaf already appears. Pikirovannye plants can be planted in a special peat pots.

After the dive cabbage seedlings will develop rapidly. It should be watered with warm water. The humidity in the room where your seedlings grow should vary between 60-70%. The daytime temperature should be 14-18 ° C, night - 8-10 ° C.

During the cultivation of seedlings it should be fed twice. For 10 liters of water, take 15 g of urea, 10 gpotassium chloride and 30 g of superphosphate. The first fertilizing should be already 2 weeks after diving the plants. The second time you can feed the plants in another 15-20 days.

Before planting in the open ground cabbage seedling needs to be hardened. You can begin to season seedlings a week before disembarkation. For this, you can not only plant cabbage seedlings by the window, but you should also reduce its watering.

Planting cabbage seedlings in the open ground is already 55-60 days after planting seeds. But the fact is that this method of growing seedlings is suitable for early cabbage. For medium and late varieties of cabbage, the cultivation of seedlings in greenhouses or greenhouses is used.

Seeds of medium-ripening varieties of cabbage sow in a greenhouse or a greenhouse in the second decade of April. But the seeds of late varieties of cabbage are sown inthe first decade of April. To know exactly which date is most favorable for sowing seeds for seedlings, do not forget to look at the lunar crop calendar the right day.

Cabbage seeds are sown to a depth of 0.5-1 cm. The width between the rows should be 6-7 cm. The temperature regime should be the same as for growing sprouts of early cabbage. Seedlings, which grow in a greenhouse, do not need to dive. But here to thin the thickened plants is notwill interfere. Leave only strong, well-developed plants. The optimal distance between the plants is 4-7 cm. Like the sprouts of early cabbage, plants also need to be supplemented twice and hardened before planting.

Cabbage sprouts of medium and late varieties can also grow on your windowsill. In this case, it should be looked after as well,as well as for seedlings of early varieties of cabbage. But sprouts of these varieties of cabbage can be grown with or without diving. Unpiked seedlings are ready for planting on the 50th day of cultivation. But the dive seedlings should be planted 60 days after sowing the seeds.

Now you know how to grow cabbage seedlings. You can be sure that you will get a good harvest of this vegetable.