Growing Savoy Cabbage

The technology for growing Savoy cabbage seedlings is not much different from the similar process for ordinary white cabbage.

Growing Savoy Cabbage begins with sowing seeds. If you want to get early-ripening cabbage, then choose fast-ripening varieties and start sowing seeds in mid-March. If you have chosen a variety with medium and late ripeness, then start sowing in mid-April.

After the first shoots have appeared, the temperature of the seedlings should be lowered to +8+10 degrees. When 1-2 true leaves appear on the sprouts, they need to be picked into individual containers.

Seedlings are ready for planting in open ground 40-45 days after emergence, at which time each sprout already has 4-5 true leaves.

It is recommended to grow Savoy cabbage in those beds where potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, legumes, beets, and onions grew before it. Where turnips, radishes, radishes or any other cabbage are grown, Savoy cabbage can only be planted again after 3-4 years.

Savoy cabbage requires significant doses of fertilizer. Therefore, the soil for planting must be prepared in the fall by digging it well and applying 5-7 kg of organic fertilizers for each square meter of the bed.

When planting early ripening varieties of Savoy cabbage in the ground early, it must be covered from the cold with film at night. If this is not done, the seedlings are subject to bolting.It is recommended that early varieties be planted in open ground before the end of May, and mid-season and late-ripening varieties are planted in late June - early July.