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The description of the Golden Hectare cabbage shows what advantages and disadvantages this variety, obtained by breeding methods in the middle of the 20th century, has. This variety has medium-sized heads of cabbage weighing no more than 2.5-3 kg. The variety belongs to the early ones. In terms of its characteristics, it is one of the most successful.
Description of cabbage variety Golden hectare
The root system of the Golden Hectare cabbage is pivotal. The depth of its penetration into the soil ranges from 30 to 40 cm. Small roots go much deeper - up to 1 m.
The stem is a short and thick stump. It is strongly leafy. The stem color is white-green.
The leaves are round, large enough below, gray-green in color with veins
In the upper part, small leaves are collected in round forks. They are white.
The rosette is slightly raised. It is small in size (circumference 60-75 cm). The leaves themselves are whole, located on short petioles. Their surface is smooth, in rare cases slightly wrinkled. The stump inside the head of cabbage is small.
The ripening period ranges from 100 to 110 days. The harvest is removed almost simultaneously, since ripeness occurs immediately in all specimens.
Pros and cons of Golden Hectare cabbage
The positive features of the Golden Hectare cabbage variety include:
- early and simultaneous maturation;
- high productivity;
- excellent taste;
- unpretentious cultivation;
- excellent disease resistance;
- high resistance to pests.
Negative sides of culture:
- impossibility of long-term storage;
- poor transportability.
It should be noted that among the early varieties of cabbage, Golden Hectare has a fairly long shelf life - about 1 month. In other species, this figure is no more than 1 week.
Planting and caring for cabbage Golden hectare
Cabbage Golden hectare grows best in sunny areas with loamy soils. Depending on the characteristics of the climate, the culture can be grown in the open field or through seedlings. Plants are planted at a distance of 0.5-0.7 m from each other.
Seeds are planted in open ground at the end of April. When growing seedlings, this is done at the end of March, and young plants are transferred to the beds in mid-May. In this case, you can take the soil similar to that in the garden. Seedlings are irrigated every 2-3 days, as the soil dries up, there is no need to do fertilizing before planting in open ground.
Caring for adult plants is quite simple: watering twice a week, 5-10 liters each, regularly loosening the beds and killing weeds
Top dressing is done 3 times a season: in mid and late May and in the second decade of June. In all cases, a mixture of nitrogen and phosphorus-potassium fertilizers is used.
Cabbage yield Golden hectare
The yield of cabbage Golden hectare is from 5 to 8 kg per square meter. Accordingly, up to 800 kg can be removed from a hundred. But these are indicators inherent in industrial cultivation. In a private garden or summer cottage, the yield decreases by 2-5 times.According to reviews of those who grew the Golden hectare variety, several tons are removed from ten acres.
An increase in yields can be achieved by a denser planting of crops and adherence to agricultural practices. An increase in the amount of fertilizers and watering rates during cultivation are not justified, since the plant will not have time to process them, and a large amount of nitrates and sulfates will accumulate in its tissues. It will become impossible to consume such cabbage.
Diseases and pests
Cabbage variety Golden hectare has good disease and pest resistance. This is not surprising, since it is for this that the culture was bred. The breeders have made every effort to select a stable and unpretentious variety.
But, despite this, with a serious deviation from agricultural standards, various fungal infections can attack Golden Hectare cabbage. First of all, this applies to plants that are watered too abundantly.
Powdery mildew is one of the most common diseases. Its symptoms are known to any gardener. With it, various parts of the plant are covered with a mealy bloom several millimeters thick.
A feature of powdery mildew on cabbage is black dots - a manifestation of tissue necrosis
The cause of the appearance of the fungus that causes the disease is the plant residues of the last year, which contain its spores. The active phase of the treatment of the disease involves the use of the drugs Fitoftorin and Ridomil. If there is no desire to use such powerful tools, you can get by with a simpler one: spraying with a 1% solution of Bordeaux liquid.
But it is best to carry out preventive measures in the form of soil treatment with copper-containing preparations some time before planting the crop in open ground. This may be the already mentioned Bordeaux mixture or a solution of copper sulfate.
Of the pests characteristic of cruciferous plants, the Golden Hectare cabbage can infect white women during the years of mass summer. This is the main enemy of the culture, periodically appearing even on the most resistant varieties.
The main problem is not the adult whites, but their larvae, which have a characteristic coloration.
During the summer, 2 to 3 generations of butterflies can change. In fact, the fourth one leaves for the winter. Since the Golden Hectare cabbage variety is early, it falls under the first two generations of the pest. Moreover, one will parasitize on young plants, and the second - on ready-to-harvest plants.
No other pest, not even cruciferous fleas, has such a destructive effect on cabbage, so whites should be dealt with especially carefully, regularly examining the plants for caterpillars and eggs.
Fortunately, the white woman does not have good resistance to poisons, and drugs that are not particularly dangerous for humans can be used to neutralize it. These include Karbofos, Iskra M and others.
Application
Since the Golden Hectare cabbage is an early ripening variety, its shelf life is short, no more than a month. Therefore, the harvested crop needs to be consumed or processed as soon as possible.
It is used raw in various salads; first and second courses, as well as pies, are made from the Golden Hectare. For consumption at a later date, conservation is used. Salted and sauerkraut Golden hectare is able to retain good taste and most of the vitamin composition for 3-4 months. When preserved with sterilization, these periods can be extended to 5-7 months.
Conclusion
Description of the Golden Hectare cabbage gives an idea of its main characteristics and advantages. This is an early ripening variety with a high yield and excellent taste. Growing Golden Hectare cabbage is relatively simple, and even a novice gardener can handle it.The main disadvantage of the culture is the short storage time of the harvested crop, which is no more than a month.
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