The Latest Summer Cabbage Planting Techniques and Methods Tutorial
Cabbage is a fairly common vegetable, and it has strong cold tolerance, disease resistance, and transport and storage capacity. Therefore, it is grown all over our country and is a major vegetable in all the major regions except in winter. But because the climate and weather differ from season to season, growing it also varies. So today, the editor brings you the summer planting techniques for cabbage. Let's take a look!
1. Choosing the site and soil
First, we need to choose a suitable place for growing cabbage in summer. The cabbage seedbed must be on high ground, dry, and have an adequate water source. Then dig beds on the seedbed to prepare for planting, scoop out the soil in the beds, and prepare to fill them with nutrient soil. The nutrient soil should be made with soil that has not grown cabbage for at least two years. Mix the soil with plenty of farmyard manure and add an appropriate amount of diammonium phosphate, potassium sulfate, and so on. Then mix and stir it thoroughly and fill it into the bed pits, keeping the soil thickness at about 10 cm. Then water it thoroughly, and once the water has soaked through the soil, you can begin sowing.
2. Seedling management
When growing cabbage in summer, sowing should be done after Qingming Festival each year, with the sowing rate well controlled. After sowing, cover with soil, then cover with a layer of plastic film. This improves the soil's moisture-holding capacity and prevents the soil from crusting. Once about 18% of the seedlings have emerged, remove the plastic film promptly. After emergence, we need to do a good job of thinning and final thinning of the seedlings. Begin thinning about half a month after emergence, keeping the spacing at about 11 cm. Keep the soil in a state of alternating dry and moist; do not water heavily, to avoid waterlogging the seedlings to death, and the watering time should be in the afternoon.
3. Preparation for planting out
The planting-out time for summer-grown cabbage generally falls right in the rainy season, so when choosing the field for planting out, make sure it is the same as the seedling bed. Also, the previous crop must not be a cruciferous vegetable, and the soil should be fertile. Then apply plenty of fertilizer, about 5,000 kg of decomposed farmyard manure per mu. After fertilizing, do a good job of land preparation, working the soil finely and making beds. Cabbage is generally grown on raised beds, with the bed height kept at about 18 cm, the row spacing at 50 cm, and about 3,600 plants per mu.
4. Management after planting out
When the cabbage seedlings have grown 5 true leaves and the leaves are dark green, you can begin transplanting and planting out. Use mainly strong seedlings for planting out, with the plant spacing kept at about 40 cm. Dig the planting holes, then water and prepare to plant out. After the seedlings are planted out and have recovered, do a good job with fertilizer and water, dissolving the fertilizer and watering it into the soil together with water. Then apply a top dressing about 3 days after planting out, mainly nitrogen fertilizer. Apply a second top dressing after 3 weeks, and then another top dressing during the heading stage of the cabbage. Do a good job of watering according to the soil moisture content and the weather; do not use too much water, to avoid water accumulation that causes rot, with the goal of promoting root growth.
The above is a brief introduction to summer cabbage planting techniques. Of course, in summer there is also the indispensable work of preventing and controlling pests and diseases, focusing on prevention, enhancing the disease resistance of cabbage, and safeguarding growing benefits. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and we hope it can help everyone!