Growing Cauliflower In The Fall

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Many vegetables that are grown in the vegetable garden during the summer could continue to produce crops for a longer period of time. However, the stumbling block is the arrival of autumn with its cold weather and near frosts. We cannot change nature, but creating favorable conditions for growing vegetables is quite within the reach of a person. Consider the technology for growing cauliflower

How to grow cabbage: in boxes or in the beds?

To stock up on cauliflower products for consumption in late autumn and early winter, crops begin in mid-summer. It is best to grow plants through seedlings, and those that are intended for growing in late autumn should not be transplanted into beds in the open field, but into containers, from which you will not have to dig out the plants later in the fall. It can be both boxes and plastic bags. Of course, it will be inconvenient to keep them in rooms, but this is not required. Such containers are dug into the ground outdoors in the summer and provide them with the usual care. At the same time, in order to get a good vegetable, cabbage needs to be watered on time and do not forget to feed. Organic matter is used as fertilizer. It can be either droppings or mullein. The concentration of bird droppings is made 1:12, the mullein is diluted 1: 5. You can also use nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers.

What is the difference between growing cabbage intended for rearing outdoors or in buried boxes? The fact is that with the arrival of frost, the cabbage will need to be moved indoors. And since the volume in the bags is limited, this will not allow the roots to grow in width and depth. And, therefore, when you remove the plant from the soil to move to basements or verandas, they will not be damaged and lose roots.

Creation of conditions for growing cabbage

You can start removing from the ground and carrying boxes of cauliflower indoors in late October - early November. They can be left in the cellar or closet, on the veranda or glazed loggia.

Those summer residents who have not yet equipped utility rooms on their plots can be recommended to leave containers in room conditions. The boxes should not be placed by the window - it is impossible for the cabbage to be exposed to direct sunlight. But the temperature in the room should be at least + 10 … + 12 ° С. Therefore, you should not install boxes with cabbage for growing in those rooms where people live.

By the way, the temperature regime can be used to regulate the speed of head formation and the quality of the cabbage:

• when the thermometer shows + 10 … + 12 ° С, the heads will form within 20-25 days;

• if the temperature is lowered to + 7 ° C, this period will stretch to 35-40 days;

• and when the level is lowered to + 2 ° С, the plant, in a sense, "preserves" its development, and the crop can be harvested only after 100-120 days.

To get the highest quality product with white and dense heads, the optimal choice of temperature is + 7 ° C.

After cutting off a grown-up product, you can not immediately eat it. Cauliflower will also keep well in the refrigerator. To prolong the freshness, the heads are folded in plastic bags. So they will not deteriorate for about a month and a half.

Growing cauliflower from the garden

Those gardeners who planted cauliflower in the summer without a second thought that it can be grown can also send it to the cellar and dig it in. For growing, you can also use that summer cauliflower that has not yet grown the head of the required size - 3-5 cm.

With the arrival of frost, such beds are watered abundantly, and then cabbage is removed from the soil with a clod of earth. They are carefully transferred to the room where they will grow, and they are added dropwise in the soil or sand.