Cabbage Peking: growing and grooming

At all beloved cabbage, the popularity has declined slightly, and all because there are new varieties of no less delicious cabbage. Take, for example, Chinese cabbage: it is also rich in vitamins and nutritious elements, it produces delicious salads, it is perfectly combined with other products. Many people mistakenly believe that Chinese and Peking cabbage are one and the same. In fact, a pekinka, which is leafy, half-baked and headed, is just a kind of Chinese cabbage, this is also the kind of pack-choy (stalked cabbage). About the last hear is rare, but the Peking cabbage has become for many of us an important, and most importantly pleasant to the taste, food. It should be noted that any Chinese cabbage possesses similar qualities . Growing up behind it is by far not the most difficult process, although with some of its own clues. Today we will talk about how to grow on your site Peking cabbage. It should be noted right away that this culture is fast-growing, so in one season it is possible to harvest two or even three crops.

Cabbage Peking grows in love with an average daylight and temperature of 18-20 ° C. It suffers temperature changes severely, just as it does not like a strong heat. That's why it's best to plant Peking cabbage either in spring, when warm weather sets in, or at the end of summer, when the main heat will go down and the day will be a little shorter. When growing cabbage in spring, it is advisable to initially plant seedlings. Cabbage, the cultivation of which seedlings took place, will give an early harvest. Seeds can be sown for seedlings both in greenhouse conditions and indoors. You can use cups for this purpose, in which two or three seeds are sown. When they sprout, leave one, the strongest sprout. Planting seedlings in the open ground should be carefully, as the Peking cabbage does not take root very well. It is not necessary to plant seedlings, the Peking cabbage, the cultivation of which began immediately after sowing the seeds in the open ground, will also give a harvest, but much later. Planting seedlings and sowing seeds is done at a distance of 40-50 cm between rows and a distance of 35-40 cm between the plants themselves.

After 8-10 days after planting the seedlings in the open ground, it is necessary to fertilize with nitrogen fertilizer, after which slightly loosen the soil of the row spacing. Cabbage Peking cultivation loves something that is well endowed with moisture. Especially it needs moisture when the heads start to form. Water it every day, if it rains rarely. To moisture does not evaporate so quickly, cabbage can be overlaid with dry grass, which simultaneously protects plants from weeds. It is also important to ensure that the Peking cabbage is not affected by various pests. With them, timely need to fight.

Many vegetable growers faced such a problem when Peking cabbage did not head out. Rummaging in useful literature, you can find such advice: when the leaves grow well, they need to be gathered into a bundle using a ring cut from a plastic bottle. The ring will not allow the leaves to develop freely, which will begin to form a head. Many vegetable growers also claim that the Peking cultivation loves cabbage along with cucumbers. To do this, it must be planted on a cucumber bed. Cucumber leaves will protect it from heat and direct sunlight, which will allow the cabbage to gain strength. True, the fact that such a neighborhood affects the growth of the cucumbers themselves is not quite established.

Do not forget that in different climatic zones the technology of cultivation of Peking cabbage will be slightly different, therefore the recommendations described above often have to be adjusted independently.