How to grow the perfect cabbage head

If you do not have a garden, you will not understand the feelings of restless gardeners and their worries for their beds. If you are a gardener, then surely faced with the problem of cracked cabbage heads in the garden.

The important thing is to know. How to properly grow cabbage in open ground. Editorial "Site" will tell you about the common causes of cracked cabbage and help prevent this problem.





Initially, you need to understand that favorable conditions for growing cabbage are a lot of light and moisture. Watering should be regular, once a week will not be enough.

Heavy downpours after a drought can provoke cracking of cabbage heads. This is because cabbage absorbs moisture unevenly, and the main liquid concentrates in the leaves in the middle of the kochan.





Cabbage does not tolerate sudden changes in temperature, because of this, the rapidly developing inner leaves tear apart the outer ones, which grow more slowly. There are 4 ways to solve the problem of cracked heads once and for all.





How to protect cabbage from cracks
  1. Organize drip watering of the plant or break up beds for growing cabbage in the wettest places of the garden plot. If you have not watered cabbage for a long time, do not rush to pour the entire volume of water at a time, but divide it several times.



  2. Water drainage grooves will prevent accumulation of water after heavy precipitation. They can be made by digging around the perimeter of flooded places of a trench 30 cm deep with a slight slope.



  3. So that cabbage does not absorb excess moisture from the soil, you need to turn the entire bush around the axis from time to time or raise plantations.



  4. Never overstretch cabbage in beds. In time, the harvested crop will prevent the shafts from cracking.





Now you know. How to grow good cabbage in the open ground No cracks. If there are cracked studs, they should be used as soon as possible. Cracked cabbage cannot be stored raw for long. If you do not know what to make of it, you can always make a supply of crispy sauerkraut for the winter. And we also have a recipe for a delicious Georgian cabbage snack.

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