Cabbage, landing and care

The red cabbage is a variety of white cabbage with purple leaves, purple, and sometimes a purple shade. The plant received its specific color thanks to the natural coloring agent Anthocian, which stains the culture in purple blue. Red cabbage - cold-resistant and heat-resistant culture, widespread in our region. It differs from white-bored cabbage late ripeness and less yield, but less susceptible to pests and diseases.

Casuals are dense, small, their weight reaches from 1 kg to 2.5 kg. The varieties of red cabbage are rich in vitamins, salts of iron, magnesium, potassium, sugars and fiber and are perfectly saved in winter. They eat a red cabbage in the cheese form, it is used to prepare vitamin salads, as well as in pickled, less often in the boiled form. According to taste properties, it is a bit sharp and sweeter than white cabbage, has a more dense structure, and in the content of vitamin C, it is twice as twice the white-born cabbage.

What is useful for a red cabbage for the body

• It helps to increase immunity and strengthen the body.
• Prevents the development of respiratory diseases.
• It has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system, reducing the risk of heart disease.
• It helps strengthen the heart muscle and vessels.
• Normalizes blood pressure, useful to hypertensive.
• Improves the work of the thyroid gland.
• Improving intestinal peristalsis helps people suffering from constipation.
• Displays toxins from the body, slags.
• Regular use of red cabbage is an excellent prophylactic and therapeutic remedy for diseases of the liver and kidney.
• Prevents the development of cancer, protects against radiation.
• The compresses from the leaves of a red cabbage are excellent assistants from the inflammation of the joints, bruises.
• It is struggling with overweight, ideal for dietary dishes.

Cabbage varieties

1. Calibos. Mid-line variety having a cone-shaped kochess, the mass of which can reach from 1.5 to 2.5 kg. The color of the Kochana is purple, and on a cut - a reddish hue. According to taste, the grade has a juicy, tender consistency. Perfectly tolerate cold and high humidity.
2. Mars. Medium-stage variety matures 140-160 days. Cochanins have a round, slightly flat shape of a dark purple color. The mass of ripened kochens from 1.2 to 1.5 kg.
3. Topaz. Early variety of purple-colored shape, is well stored.
4. Avangard F1. The mid-length variety having a vertical outlet of a large-green leaf leaf, having a wax flare. The shape of the Kochan is oval and dense, reaches 2.2 kg.
5. Anthracite F1. Mid-line variety having a vertical outlet of a large leaf of purple shade, have a wax. When ripening, the kochens reach a mass from 1.5 to 2.3 kg
6. Stone head-447. Mid-line variety. Kochan has a rounded shape of a small size, the structure is dense. In the incision of cabbage has a red-purple color. Sort of juicy and gentle, high-yielding.
7. Mikhnevskaya. Mid-line variety, kochens are large and dense, have a purple-red shade. The variety has wonderful taste.
8. Late beauty. Lovely variety, cochanic, violet color, dense structures. The mass of the coach reaches up to 3 kg.
9. Early beauty. Early variety. Small cochanities of a rounded form, medium density, weighing from 1 to 2 kg, have pleasant taste.

Red Cabbage, Growing

The planting of the red cabbage is carried out in two ways: seed or ever.

Seed method of growing red cabbage

The lack of growing seeds is a great consumption of seeds and careful care for sprouts at the initial stage of vegetation. For the southern regions, the ideal period for sowing seeds - March-April, for the Northern Regions - April-June.
Before sowing, the seeds of the cabbage of the redcake must undergo the procedure for disinfection and quenching. To do this, they must be moved in a weak mortar solution, you can also lower them for 20 minutes in hot water (50 ° C), then cool. For planting prepared seeds, choose fertile soil. The distance between the wells should be 60 cm, 4 seeds are planted to a depth of 4 cm. From above, it is desirable to spray with a mixture of humus and peat and pointing ashes, in order to avoid infection with a cross-color flesh. After the plant is growing and it will have several leaves, it is necessary to carry out, removing weak sprouts in each well. When the sprouts reach 15 cm, you should choose the strongest, removing weak. Perching is performed for the formation of a strong root system and rooting.

Eat crewing method of red cabbage

It is possible to germinate the seedlings of a red cabbage in a seedlings, pots both on the windowsill, greenhouses and greenhouses and in open events. Seed seeds in the boxes are seeds described above. The soil must be fertile, loose, with acidity not exceeding 7.0 pH. In the sour shine, the red cabbage will not grow. Since the red cabbage cold-resistant culture and easily withstands the temperature drop. It is worth remembering that the cabbage is moisture, so the seedlings are often recommended, but not abundantly moisturize and spray. Vegetable culture needs feeding with mineral fertilizers, which is carried out in two stages. The first feeding of seedlings is carried out when 2-3 leaves appeared on the sprouts, the second - a few days before it is planted in the ground. As a feeding, you can use the following composition: 30 g of superphosphate, 15 g of urea and 10 g of potassium chloride for every 10 liters of water.
Seedling of a red cabbage is ready for landing when 5 well-developed leaves appeared on the sprouts. As a rule, the height of the sprouts reaches 18-20 cm. In order for the sprouts easier to be easier from the boxes, the seedlings are preliminarily moistened.

To disembark seedlings, choose a well-lit place. Extraked sprouts are deepened in the well, pre-fertilized by potash fertilizer mixed with soil. Requires abundant watering of a young plant - 2 l for each sprout.

Red Cabbage, Care

The red cabbage is a moisture-loving plant that needs regular, but moderate watering, timely injection, soil looser and tidy.

Watering a red cabbage

The yield, as well as the quality of the kochanov directly depends on the watering of culture. Especially the red cabbage needs moisture during the formation of the rosettes of leaves, during their intensive growth of leaves and when forming Kochanov. It should be taken into account that although the cabbage is a moisture culture, but it does not tolerate moisture. Cabbage is useful to conduct a sprinkle procedure to drop water drops from the leaves.

Loosening and glue of red cabbage

The plant needs to be periodically dipped and weeding weeds in the aisle to improve the development of the root system.

Falker of red cabbage

After rooting seedlings in the ground, it should be filled with liquid organic fertilizer. During the active growth of the leaves, the cabbage must be filled with a fertilizer containing nitrogen, and potassium and phosphorus must be present in the fertilizer. The pod-barked plant needs watering. For greater yield and fullness of the kochanov, feeding and watering should be moderate and regular. If the cappist is a long period of time not to water, and then sharply pour it with water - the kochens can burst.

Pests of red cabbage

The red cabbage, as well as the white-born is subject to diseases and pests with which it is necessary to start the struggle.

• The main enemy of any cabbage - cabbage molewhich is a caterpillar about 10 cm long. To combat cabbage mole, a carbofos solution is used (60 grams per 10 liters of water), as it is poisonous, spraying is carried out no later than one month before the start of harvesting.
• Capping scoop - The caterpillars are greenish, sometimes brown, which tear down the moves in Kochane. Insecticide spraying is used to effectively combat them.
• Capping fly(in the form of white larvae) - the threat to the roots of cabbage. To prevent infection with this pest, during the cultivation of seedlings, a 5% solution of the base of the base (20 g per 10 m2) is added to the soil.
• Capping Tla - TLL, which is placed on the bottom of the leaves in the form of greenish colonies. A 0.5% solution of metaton is helped to fight her.
• Belyanka cabbage (kapuetrian)- These are caterpillars having a yellowish green shade that emitted leaves. In the fight against them, the Dipel preparation is 1-1.5 g per 10 m2.
• Sometimes you can see the seedlings of small black bugs - earth fleeswhich are discrained in young leaflets of the opening of the wrong shape. Especially many of them appear in the drought. Seedlings must be treated with insecticides.

A red cabbage is not just a vegetable culture, it is still a very beautiful plant that makes the country area attractive. Its leaves of a saturated purple, lilac or purple color create a bright contrast with other green plants. And her bright color will decorate any summer dish. A red cabbage is a storehouse of vitamins, it is well stored and will decorate the table all year round.

Red cabbage, photo