Detailed description and characteristics of the variety of cabbage gift

Only that gardener who will responsibly treat all the requirements of a certain variety can get a good harvest of cabbage in the fall. Gift variety cabbage is an unpretentious plant that will allow you to enjoy the harvest until spring.

Description and characteristics of the variety

Growing any cabbage requires little effort, but proper care is essential. Gardeners stop their choice on a gift variety due to its characteristics: unpretentiousness, disease resistance and resistance even in late spring frosts, the absence of cracked heads of cabbage. It can be planted in any regions of Russia.

Dense, rounded or slightly flattened white forks weigh up to five kilograms. Externally, a gray-green head of cabbage in the cut will be greenish white. The rosette is large, it can reach a diameter of up to one meter. Leaves are slightly raised, spreading, smooth with a waxy coating. There is a slight waviness along the edge.

Positive qualities and disadvantages of the gift

There are no shortcomings regarding this type of cabbage. There are only a few essential requirements in care: abundant watering, fertile and protection from pests. We list a description of the advantages of the gift variety, thanks to which gardeners appreciate it:

1. The ability to grow in any region of Russia.
2. Frost resistance and heat resistance.
3. Resistance to various types of diseases.
4. No cracking.
5. Long shelf life up to five months.
6. It tolerates transportation well, keeping its presentation.
7. High productivity.
8. Suitable for pickling and pickling.

Like any other cabbage, the gift is not protected from attack by caterpillars, so you need to devote time to examining the leaves as often as possible.

Planting and soil requirements

It will be good to place in place such predecessors as nightshades. These include tomatoes and potatoes, peppers and eggplants, pumpkin or legumes, and onions. Growing is more efficient through seedlings. An open ground transplant is performed on the fiftieth day.

Sowing rules

In the spring, at the junction of April and May, you can start sowing seedlings at home or even immediately in open ground under a shelter, only in both cases the rules and recommendations will be different.

The planting scheme for growing seedlings is 5 * 5 centimeters, not more than 1.5 centimeters deep. The first shoots can be seen after a week. It is easy to understand that the sprout is ready to move to open ground. If the number of real leaves reaches five pieces, then you can safely send them to the beds. On average, such a sight can be seen on the forty-fifth day.

Sowing in open ground is risky, but it is still possible if the gardener takes care of shelter for the first time. The scheme will be similar to planting seedlings in the soil: 60 * 60 centimeters. You can prepare a place for cabbage in various ways. For example, landing in shallow trenches will allow the water not to spread during irrigation, moisture will last longer.

Cabbage care

Top dressing, hilling, loosening the soil along with weeding and watering will allow you to collect a rich crop, which can reach up to 10 kilograms per square meter of land. If the stem of the fruit begins to stretch, it may lose its taste and density of the head.

Loosening should be done periodically, once a week, on wet soil. The loosening depth is five centimeters. Hilling can be started three weeks after planting in the garden.

Watering is required thoroughly, especially in the first two weeks - every two to three days. At least seven liters of water per square meter of land must be consumed at a time.

Top dressing is an individual matter, and if the gardener prefers to avoid adding chemicals to the soil, then she will be right. This measure is not obligatory, but it brings good results. "Effekton" will provide a quick set of the green mass of forks. Starting from the twentieth day after the transplant, and then three or four more times for the entire time, you need to use half a liter of the ready-made solution for one fork. The solution is prepared according to the scheme: two tablespoons of the product for ten liters of water. As a second feeding, you can use half a liter of mullein or bird droppings, diluted in ten liters of water. You can also add a Kemir spoon here.

Diseases and their prevention

Despite the fact that the variety is highly resistant to various types of diseases, it is still worth knowing how to contribute to a speedy recovery and their prevention. Spraying with a solution of ash, tomato or tobacco, garlic.

Cruciferous fleas are small bugs and larvae that gnaw veins on leaves. Affected leaves dry up and die. Their appearance can be prevented by timely destruction of weeds, irrigation by sprinkling.

The cabbage fly lays its eggs on the ground close to the stem in late May and early June. If they are not removed within six days, the hatched larvae will damage the roots and eat them around, which will lead to the death of the plant. To prevent their spread, you need to sprinkle the soil around the seedlings with ash, black pepper or tobacco dust, and then introduce it into the soil by loosening.

Snails and slugs damage not only the ground, but also the underground part of the plant. You can determine the cause of the lesion by the dried mucus and the leaves eaten by them. A mixture of mustard, ash, ground pepper and table salt in the amount of two tablespoons for each ingredient, diluted in half a liter of water, you need to spray the soil between the forks. Better to do this on a hot and sunny day. And in the evening, carry out the procedure by sprinkling the heads of cabbage themselves.

The cabbage whiteworm or scoop will lay eggs constantly, and the best factor in dealing with it is to frequently inspect the underside of the leaves. In order to save the plant from damage, you need to water it with a solution of two glasses of ash in ten liters of boiling water and one tablespoon of liquid soap.

Harvesting

Fruit ripeness is reached 125 days after the first germination. September - October is the best period for removing surebets. The versatility of the variety allows you to use it fresh throughout the winter, prepare salted or sauerkraut for the winter. One hundred grams of the product contains from 26 to 41 milligrams of ascorbic acid.

High yield and unpretentiousness in the process of growing the Podarok variety attract gardeners. Compliance with the rules of care and prevention of diseases will allow you to enjoy tasty and juicy cabbage from your own garden until spring.