Summer residents and gardeners love late varieties of white cabbage. They keep well, do not require complex care, and are ideal for fermentation. Cabbage "Moscow late" was bred at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Selection by the method of family and individual selection from the Moscow variety "Pyshkinskaya". The variety was zoned in 1943.
This crop belongs to late-ripening varieties. It is characterized by high yield, excellent presentation and pleasant taste. It is these characteristics that made this variety a priority among gardeners in the Moscow region and central Russia.
Moscow late cabbage: description
This variety is acid-resistant, undemanding to soils and care. The plant has many advantages that make it popular for growing in garden plots.
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This variety has a large leaf rosette. Its size reaches 110 cm. Rounded or oval-shaped leaves, wrinkled, gray-green in color. They have a slight wax coating. The edges of the leaves are smooth, slightly wavy, with long petioles. The veins are coarse and sparse. Heads of cabbage are very dense, large, juicy, flat-round or rounded. Their average weight is from 4 to 6 kilograms, but often reaches 15 kilograms.
In the context of the Moscow late cabbage, it is colored yellow-white. The inner stalk is of medium or short length, the outer one is high (about 30 cm).
The yield of the variety is more than ten kilograms per square meter, or about nine hundred centners per hectare. Cabbage "Moscow late" is a moisture-loving plant. Especially it needs abundant watering in early autumn.
Characterized by resistance to pests and clubroot damage, head cracking.
Dignity of the variety
- High content of sugars and ascorbic acid.
- Productivity, excellent marketability and taste.
- Suitable for pickling, canning, fresh consumption, long-term storage.
Flaws
According to vegetable growers, the main disadvantage of the variety is the high outer stump, due to which large heads of cabbage fall on their side. To prevent this, it is necessary to high up the cabbage or use supports.
Features of cultivation
Moscow late cabbage is grown in two ways - from seedlings or by sowing seeds into the ground. Today, one of the most popular late-ripening varieties is Moscow late cabbage. Characteristicvarieties allows you to sow it from the tenth of April. The growing period of seedlings is on average about 35 days. In addition, this variety can be planted in the ground on the ridges (under the film cover) in the last decade of April.
Before sowing, cabbage seeds must be prepared. The quality of the crop depends on this. Dry seeds must be placed in hot (+50 ° C) water for a quarter of an hour, then in cold water for one minute. After that, they must be immersed in a solution of trace elements for twelve hours. Then they are washed under running water and placed in the refrigerator for a day. After all the manipulations, the seeds are dried so that they do not stick to hands, and planted.
Growing seedlings of "Moscow late" cabbage, the following requirements should be met:
- you can use sowing in planting pots with the removal of the weakest plants from the seedlings or use the picking method;
- for this variety of cabbage, planting cells of 8 x 8 cm are required, which are the optimal area for feeding seedlings;
- so that the seedlings do not stretch too high and grow as strong as possible, on sunny days it is necessary to withstand temperatures from +15 to +17 ° С, on gloomy cloudy days - no higher than +15 ° С. At night, the temperature should not exceed +10 °С;
- cabbage is a cold-resistant plant, the seeds of this vegetable crop germinate at a fairly low temperature (+3…+5 °С). And ripe heads of cabbage can withstand frosts down to -5 ° С.
Moscow late cabbage prefers openareas with well-fertilized, fertile soil of slightly acidic or neutral reaction. The distance between plants during planting should be at least 60 cm, and the row spacing should be at least 70 cm.
Care
Care for cabbage of this variety is standard. It involves regular abundant watering and a single (per season) application of complex fertilizers. Good, high-quality seedlings are strong, have a strong root system and at least six leaves.
Seedlings are planted in open ground about a month and a half after sowing the seeds.
Irrigation
Moscow late cabbage loves moisture, but it needs especially abundant watering during dry periods. Watering is carried out in the evening, under the root. Before full ripening, the fruits are reduced so that the heads do not crack from excess moisture.
Feeding
The seedlings are fed for the first time twenty-one days after planting. The next - in twelve and twenty-four days, respectively. It is recommended to use diluted bird droppings or slurry. The plant responds well to mulching with compost or humus.
Special attention should be paid to the fight against weeds. Cabbage ridges must be regularly cleared of them, and after rains and irrigation, shallow loosening will be required, as well as hilling this vegetable crop.
Pests and diseases
Often during the growing season, the plant is affected by cruciferous fleas, cabbagescoop, whitefly, cabbage fly, slugs, etc. Cruciferous fleas infect young plants and seedlings, cabbage fly, whitefly and scoop are dangerous for adult plants. To protect against pests and diseases, modern preparations are used - insectofungicides. Many gardeners prefer to use time-tested folk methods, including dolomite flour, wood ash, infusions and decoctions of tomato leaves, wormwood, onions, garlic.
Cabbage "Moscow late": reviews of gardeners
According to experienced vegetable growers, this is one of the best late-ripening varieties of white cabbage. It is perfect for fermentation. In addition, gardeners believe that the Moscow Late cabbage variety is perfectly stored for a long time (during the winter period), and the excellent taste and excellent quality of these dense heads of cabbage receive only positive reviews and the highest ratings.
