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The description of the Golden Hectare cabbage shows what advantages and disadvantages this variety, obtained through breeding methods in the mid-20th century, has. This variety has medium-sized heads of cabbage weighing no more than 2.5-3 kg. The variety is an early variety. Based on the totality of characteristics, it is one of the most successful.
Description of the cabbage variety Golden Hectare
The root system of the Golden Hectare cabbage is a taproot. The depth of its penetration into the soil is from 30 to 40 cm. Small roots go much deeper - up to 1 m.
The stem is a short and thick stalk. It is very leafy. The stem color is white-green.
The leaves are round, quite large underneath, gray-green with veins.
In the upper part, small leaves are collected in round forks. They are white.
The leaf rosette is slightly raised. It is small in size (circumference 60-75 cm). The leaves themselves are entire, located on short petioles. Their surface is smooth, in rare cases slightly wrinkled. The stalk inside the head of cabbage is small.
Ripening time ranges from 100 to 110 days.The harvest is harvested 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;
- unpretentiousness in cultivation;
- excellent disease resistance;
- high resistance to pests.
Negative aspects of culture:
- impossibility of long-term storage;
- poor transportability.
It should be noted that among the early varieties, Golden Hectare cabbage has a fairly long shelf life - about 1 month. In other species, this figure is no more than 1 week.
Planting and caring for Golden Hectare cabbage
Golden Hectare cabbage grows best in sunny areas with loamy soils. Depending on the climate, the crop can be grown in open ground 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 soil similar to what is in the garden. Watering the seedlings is done once every 2-3 days, as the soil dries out; there is no need to fertilize before planting in open ground.
Caring for adult plants is quite simple: watering twice a week with 5-10 liters, regularly loosening the beds and killing weeds
Fertilizing is done 3 times a season: in the middle and end of May and in the second ten days of June. In all cases, a mixture of nitrogen and phosphorus-potassium fertilizers is used.
Cabbage yield Golden hectare
The yield of Golden Hectare cabbage ranges from 5 to 8 kg per square meter. Accordingly, you can remove up to 800 kg from one hundred square meters. But these are indicators typical for industrial cultivation. In a private garden or cottage, the yield decreases by 2-5 times. According to reviews from those who grew the Golden Hectare variety, several tons are harvested from ten acres.
Increased yields can be achieved by planting crops more densely and following agricultural practices. Increasing the volume 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 eat such cabbage.
Diseases and pests
The Golden Hectare cabbage variety has good resistance to diseases and pests. This is not surprising, since this is precisely what the culture was bred for. Breeders have made every effort to select a stable and unpretentious variety.
But, despite this, with a serious deviation from agrotechnical standards, Golden Hectare cabbage can be attacked by various fungal infections. First of all, this applies to plants that are watered too much.
One of the common diseases is powdery mildew. Its symptoms are known to any gardener. With it, various parts of the plant are coated with a powdery coating several millimeters thick.
A feature of powdery mildew on cabbage are black spots - a manifestation of tissue necrosis
The cause of the appearance of the fungus that causes the disease is the plant remains of the previous year, which contain its spores. The active phase of treatment of the disease involves the use of the drugs Phytophtorin and Ridomil. If you do not want to use such powerful means, you can get by with something simpler: spraying with a 1% solution of Bordeaux mixture.
But it is best to carry out preventive measures in the form of treating the soil 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 vegetables, Golden Hectare cabbage can be affected by white cabbage during mass summers. This is the main enemy of the crop, periodically appearing even on the most resistant varieties.
The main problem is not the adult whites, but their larvae, which have a characteristic color
Over the summer, 2 to 3 generations of butterflies can change. In fact, it takes the fourth to 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 those already ready for harvest.
No other pest, not even cruciferous flea beetles, has such a detrimental effect on cabbage, so flea beetles should be dealt with especially carefully, regularly inspecting the plants for caterpillars and eggs.
Fortunately, the whitefish does not have good resistance to poisons, and drugs that are not particularly dangerous to humans can be used to neutralize it. These include Karbofos, Iskra M and others.
Application
Since 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, preserved food is used. Salted and sauerkraut Golden Hectare is able to retain its good taste and most of its vitamin content for 3-4 months. When preserved with sterilization, these periods can be extended to 5-7 months.
Conclusion
The description of Golden Hectare cabbage gives an idea of its main characteristics and advantages. This is an early ripening variety with 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 crop is the short shelf life of the harvested crop, amounting to no more than a month.
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