Cabbage Sugarloaf
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Cabbage Sugarloaf: variety description
According to statistics, cabbage is one of the three most commonly consumed herbaceous plants, the five most useful and widespread, which means there will be no problem buying it. Cabbage has won the hearts of people of all ages. A wide variety of varieties allows you to choose your own variety for suburban or suburban areas. Cabbage Sugarloaf is currently the favorite of the people.
Quite rightly, gardeners and summer residents fell in love with this type of cabbage. There is a cabbage Sugarloaf from the Cruciferous family, belongs to white cabbage varieties with a late ripeness. Cabbage variety Sugarloaf was bred by breeders in Moscow in two thousand and eight. Suitable for farmers who have built their business on the sale of cabbage, and for ordinary people for their own consumption.
Photo of cabbage variety Sugarloaf
Characteristics of the cabbage variety Sugarloaf
Cabbage rosette Sugarloaf is voluminous, takes up a lot of space in a state of full ripeness. The dimensions of the rosette are about eighty centimeters wide, about forty centimeters up. The process of vegetation and full ripening from the first sprouting to the state of technical ripeness - usually one hundred thirty - one hundred sixty days. The mass of a ripe head of a cabbage Sugarloaf is about two to four kilograms, and sometimes specimens of six and a half kilograms come across.
The leaves are green in color, a bloom of gray wax, a shape resembling a circle, large, uneven edges, filled with juice, tender, without coarse fibers, crunch is created when used, the taste is sweet due to the high sugar content (this variety has the largest amount of sugar ), useful trace elements and vitamins.
The head of cabbage variety Sugarloaf itself has a spherical shape, some parts of it cover the leaves, inside a snow-white color, experts have estimated the density of the product at four points and one tenth point on a five-point scale, the cabbage stump is shortened, usually about seven centimeters.
To obtain cabbage of the Sugarloaf variety without bitterness, it is necessary to arrange the collection of cabbage immediately after the end of the second frost. It is recommended to include in the diet actually grown cabbage thirty days after harvest, as well as to make preparations and salting. All due to the fact that the vegetable culture increases its taste, excess bitterness leaves.
Growing cabbage seedlings Sugarloaf
To get Sugarloaf cabbage, seedlings are used in their garden. Sowing seeds of varieties of this category (late ripeness) is recommended to be produced in the first - second week of the second spring month. You can place a container with Sugarloaf cabbage seedlings by the window or in open soil, but under a thick film. Check the soil temperature, it should be about fifteen to seventeen degrees. At a lower temperature, the seeds will not sprout. The landing pattern is five by five. Place the planting material, namely the seeds, in a humate solution for twelve hours, then wash in warm water and dry.
Before sowing, add humus, organic or potash fertilizers, and urea to the ground. To grow seedlings on your own at home in a container, you will need:
- twenty - twenty-five percent of the land is sod, seventy percent of peat, five percent of sand.
- fifty percent turf, no more than forty-five percent humus, five percent sand.
In open ground, you need to plant cabbage seedlings Sugarloaf with the formation of four leaves, somewhere in late spring - early summer.
It is necessary to harden before planting the vegetable crop. Transfer the container to a window sill by an open window for half a day, you can remove a thick film in the morning.
Growing a variety of cabbage Sugarloaf
Before planting Sugarloaf cabbage seedlings, it is necessary to prepare the soil in advance, and also follow the simple points of the rule:
- It is recommended to plant cabbage in places where onions, potatoes, pumpkin and various legumes grew before it. You can't go to the area where cabbage grew last year.
- Give preference to earth with low acid or neutral levels.
- Choose areas with sufficient sunlight to encourage plant growth.
In the autumn season, the garden needs to be dug up, and in the spring season, loosen and use top dressing, usually ten liters and two cups of wood ash are needed per square meter. In all the landing pits, it is necessary to place two tablespoons of superphosphate, one tablespoon of urea. Dive the seedlings in a sixty centimeters by sixty centimeters pattern, place them in the ground to a depth of the lower leaves and moisten the soil with half a liter of warm and settled water.
Cabbage Sugarloaf: photo of the variety
Cabbage variety care Sugarloaf
At the time of the growth of the vegetable crop, apply mineral or organic fertilizing two to three times (one in five, manure and warm settled water). When ten to twelve leaves are formed, the vegetable must begin to huddle, this helps to strengthen the root system, as well as the formation of new roots.
It is recommended to moisten the soil rarely, usually once every twenty days, as they say "rarely, but aptly." Watch out for dry crust formation, but do not allow swamp to form. In the process of head formation, we advise you to increase the volume of consumed water. Immediately after moistening the soil, loosen it, remove weeds. About a month before you start harvesting the fruit, stop moistening the ground.
Possible cultivar diseases
Sugarloaf cabbage has a high level of resistance to various diseases, however, in the absence of proper care, cultivation, and bad weather, there are exceptions.
- Keela
Fungus disease, in order to avoid infection with this disease, produce timely weeding, crop rotations, use lime. Unfortunately, remove the diseased plant and burn it. - Fusarium
If there is yellowness on the leaves or a brown tint, the plant has undergone this disease. Remove and burn the diseased vegetable crop, disinfect the land on which the plant grew with vitriol. - Bacteriosis
In the presence of blackened leaves, yellowed edges, the plant has undergone this disease. Purchase the phytolavin 300 chemical agent in the garden-themed store.
The most important thing in caring for a vegetable crop is crop rotation.
Cabbage Sugarloaf: photo of the variety
We collect the fruits
It was already mentioned above that the collection of the fruits of the Sugarloaf cabbage must be done only after the second frost, usually around the last week of the first autumn month or in the first week of the second autumn month, be guided by the weather. It is necessary to store only completely healthy fruits of vegetable crops, without defects. From the outside, remove the stump up to four centimeters. Move to completely dry rooms at zero degrees and store fruit there. So she will last until June.
By following the simple maintenance rules, you will have a large amount of healthy harvest. Throughout the winter season, you can cook a huge variety of cabbage dishes.
Cabbage Sugarloaf: reviews of gardeners
- Anastasia Alexandrovna, Moscow region: "I can say with confidence that the Sugarloaf cabbage has an amazing taste, from the name it is clear that" sugarloaf "means a head of cabbage without bitterness, but with a sweet taste. I also really like that the Sugarloaf cabbage variety has an excellent shelf life, you don't have to worry about its condition until the end of spring - early summer. It does not rot, does not lose useful microelements and vitamins, and acquires an improved taste. "
- Ekaterina Stanislavovna, Samara region: “I have been growing the cabbage variety Sugarloaf for a long time. Moreover, this is the only cabbage variety growing on my site. I really like its taste, and immunity to many diseases and pests is good news. The only negative is a small amount of the Sugarloaf cabbage variety, but, for example, it is enough for me and my family. However, Sugarloaf is not quite suitable for growing cabbage for sale. "
