A - Z Cabbage Growing Tips1

Yes, you are so welcome and this is Ivan Arenda once again, your produce guy, taking you through the cabbages, how to grow cabbages and the basic, basic requirement that you would need. Yeah, first of all we assume that we all know how to raise the cabbage. For those of us who do not know the nursery part, we have a clip about the nursery. I've done a clip about the nursery raising better seedlings and we can always go back to it. Yeah, so here we're beginning at transplanting and of course the nursery takes 30 days. During the nursery, just a highlight, you have to take care and look out to control, especially damping off and then caterpillars and the other chewing pests. Yeah, when we're transplanting, of course, our garden must be ready, well dug, without weeds and then well watered. It should be moist, the soil should be moist and then the holes are going to be, the planting holes, inter-plant is going to be 45 centimeters, that is 0.45 meters and then inter-row is going to be 60 meters and that is for, sorry, 60 centimeters, that is 0.6 meters and that's going to be for a leafy variety. For varieties that do not grow so leafy, we can reduce the inter-row spacing to about 45 centimeters or 50 centimeters. Yeah, but all that comes with points to note. So here we're going to go through here this, after we have our spacing demarcation, then we make the holes large enough, of course, and then we have to put a handful of manure and one tablespoon of a phosphate fertilizer. This is to ensure your new seedlings establish more quick and more faster and strong. Yeah, and at this point on the very same day of transplanting, you're going to spray against the caterpillars and against the catworm, the two major pests at that stage, because if you don't do so the next morning, you are going to have some plants being cut by the catworms. So you'll always see them falling off, yeah, and being cut to the ground, to the soil level, ground level. Yeah, so we have to avoid that because our seeds are precious and we really need to keep them strong and standing. So that is the week one, and in the week two, on the 14th day, we're going to spray again against the catworms and the caterpillars. We are going to focus on protection, protection against blights and other fungal diseases, and we're going to do that using any protection fungicide out there. And then we are going to apply one tablespoon in a ring method on each plant. Yeah, one tablespoon, actually not a tablespoon, it's one bottle top. Yeah, one bottle top on each plant, and then we are going to cover it with soil. Now here we are applying Calicium and Ammonium Nitrogen. Yeah, so this is to assure the plants gain more vigour, make the vegetation, and also Calicium is going to be for their strength of the cell walls, and also must perhaps look onto the Calicium deficiencies. Yeah, and then we move to week three, and on the week three, we're going to do another protection, and then we're going to target on a bit of soft rot and then black rot, and then we will apply a Copper Ox Chloride or any other Copper-based fungicide that you could come across. Yeah, so in this we have a few aphids coming upon the plants or coming to the plants. So here we have what we call a neem oil extract, where we use the neem tree leaves to get this extract, and it's majorly for protection. Yeah, so against aphids. Yeah, so in the fourth week, in the fourth week, we expect our cabbages to be bigger, and we will do another protection with the protective fungicide, and then apply the Copper for the soft rots and the black rots, which are bacteria, and then we will have a systemic insecticide, which is a diamethate, and I will add Carn, which is two bottle tops on each plant, Calicium Ammonium Nitrate. Yeah, so this is to prepare the plants to start capping. Yeah, so when we move to the fifth week, we will try to shift from a very highly intensive chemical input to a much favorable regenerative practice, and here we're going to use organic product, or much more close to organic product. Yeah, and in this thing here, in this protocol, we're going to use a neem oil extract plus a peppermint oil, yeah, extract. So we're going to mix the both, and then continue to spray against the aphids, and then do protection with the protection bicarbonate, and then do detoxification and growth boost with the product, local product. We have a product here called SG-1000. Yeah, yeah, so these are going to be our major, major products to use. So that is week five, and in week six, when we enter week six, we are going to do protection with the same potassium bicarbonate, and then spray using copper for soft roots and black roots, and then continue our neem oil extract plus peppermint oil against the aphids. Yeah, so in the seventh week, we're going to do the same protection with the potassium bicarbonate, and then copper for the soft roots, the roots, the soft and the black root, and then we still do neem oil extract together with the peppermint oil. And then as we enter week eight, we're just going to do the same, potassium bicarbonate for protection, and then a copper for the black and soft roots, and then neem oil extract and the peppermint for the aphids. And that will go through to week nine, and in the tenth week, that will be harvesting. So there is no need for spray. Yeah, so we will end our protocol in the ninth week. Thank you. Thank you so much. We can always adjust. This is not a silver bullet. Yeah, we can adjust according to your region, according to where you are watching from, but this is what we can deliver. Thank you so much. Ivan Arenda, your produce guy.