Cabbage - a vegetable is very healthy and tasty, suitable for use both in fresh form, and as part of various dishes. Almost every vegetable gardener plants one or another kind of cabbage — cauliflower, blue, savoy, kohlrabi or the most common and beloved by many — white cabbage, but not everyone knows that to get a thick and beautiful cabbage behind him in the fall you need to carefully care and regularly feed. Consider several options what and when to feed cabbage with folk remedies for a good harvest.
Did you know? Cabbage got its name from the Latin word, the literal translation of which sounds like "head".
Top dressing of cabbage soda food
A rather unusual and yet not very common way of using baking soda as a fertilizer for cabbage growing in open ground. Nevertheless, this method has a very favorable effect on the development of a young plant, as well as on preserving the ripening head from cracking and violation of its integrity.
To prepare the solution you need to prepare a mixture of 10 g of baking soda and 5 liters of warm water. The resulting mixture is plentifully watered the leaves of cabbage in the summer, as well as in early autumn until the beginning of heavy seasonal rains. The use of soda solution helps longer storage of cabbage heads in winter almost until the end of spring in good condition.
How to fertilize cabbage: feeding with beer yeast
A method such as feeding the cabbage with yeast has been used for a long time by experienced gardeners, who have evaluated its effectiveness. For the preparation of yeast feed water, about 20 g of dry yeast powder is mixed with 150 g of coarse sand, and then this mixture is diluted in 5 liters of warm water and left to stand for about a week. When this yeast fertilizer actively ferments, it is ready for use. To do this, the glass of the resulting mixture should be diluted in 10 liters of warm water and pour over the cabbage with yeast water. Yeast dressing for good growth of cabbage is made 2 times per season with an interval of 30-40 days. After watering the cabbage with yeast water on the third or fourth day, it is necessary to feed it with wood ash to restore the required level of calcium in the soil.
Important! Fertilizers used for cabbage, suitable for feeding colored, you only need to increase the concentration of nutrient mixtures in 2 times.
How to feed cabbage with boric acid
The use of boric acid is quite effective as an extra root dressing of cabbage. To prepare the nutrient mixture dissolve 1 tsp. boric acid in 1 liter of hot water and bring it with water to a volume of 10 liters of the finished solution.
The mixture obtained in the middle of summer is sprayed with cabbage tops, which soon will respond to intensive growth and good formation of heads.
Ammonia as a fertilizer for cabbage
When the question arises, how to feed seedlings of cabbage, which grows poorly, and there is only a home first aid kit at hand and there is no opportunity to buy fertilizer, some home gardeners with extensive experience in growing vegetables will prompt you to use ammonia for these purposes.
First you need to make a nutrient mixture of ammonia - 50 ml and 5 liters of water and the resulting solution should be watered each plant under the root. Treatment with ammonia is carried out in several visits every 5-7 days. Besides that cabbage It will be fertilized with microelements and will start to grow rapidly, this method effective as a cheap pest remedy, who will long leave the beds with vegetables from the action of ammonia.
Egg Shell Use
Often gardeners use eggshell as a fertilizer and a means to normalize acidic soil. This method requires large stocks of eggshell, it makes sense to accumulate it in a dry room in the autumn and winter, and in the spring crush and when planting cabbage seedlings use the resulting powder as fertilizer, pouring 1 tsp into each planting well. Calcium, which is quite a lot in the shell, nourishes the root system, and the plant develops well, besides this method effectively save plantations from damage by a headstone.
Important! Calcium deficiency can be identified by white spots on cabbage leaves. If you do not fill the missing mineral, the plant stalk dries out and breaks off.
Top dressing cabbage potatoes
Very well established itself as a fertilizer applied under the cabbage in the spring - potato infusion. For its preparation, shredded potato peelings should be placed in a large container and filled with boiling water, then left for 3 days for baking. From time to time, potato infusion should be mixed well. On the 4th day the mixture is ready to eat. Potato organic dressing for cabbage is introduced directly into each well when planting cabbage seedlings - about a glass of nutrient mixture for one young plant, while picking up potato slices is not necessary, decomposing in the soil, they will nourish the growing cabbage with nutrients. This strained potato tincture is suitable for feeding cabbage after planting in the ground, it can be applied under the cabbage roots 1-2 times a month, thereby feeding the plant with nourishing minerals and beneficial salts.
Did you know? Japanese people use cabbage as an ornamental plant, decorating their gardens with it.
How to fertilize cabbage with banana waste
Beginner vegetable growers often have questions about how to feed cabbage seedlings, in addition to chemical fertilizers. Such a popular method of cabbage fertilization as the use of banana waste is very effective. For the preparation of a banana nutrient mixture, you need a few pieces of banana peel, which should be chopped and filled with water at the rate of 1 liter per 1 peel and left in a dark place for 4 days to infuse. The present nutrient mixture is filtered and watered with cabbage plantations - about 1 liter of infusion per plant. To simplify the process, some gardening enthusiasts, when planting cabbage in open ground, throw a small portion of banana waste directly into a planting hole, in which it will gradually decompose and to feed the earth with potassium and other useful substances.
Important! A lack of potassium makes the leaves hilly and lighter in color, the edge of the tops becomes corrugated, and over time the plant fades.Growing dense and beautiful cabbage, which will be stored for a long time and delight the gardener's family with delicious borscht and salads, is impossible without its dressing. As a fertilizer, it is better to use folk remedies that will help to get a generous harvest of vegetables and will not bring any harm to health after they are eaten.
