Cabbage gift: description and characteristics of the variety, yield with photo

Cabbage is a vegetable crop, which is grown by almost all owners of summer cottages. Gardeners really like it because of its unpretentious care and pleasant taste. Among the late varieties, Podarok cabbage is more popular. Further, a detailed description of this variety, planting rules and recommendations for caring for the plant are presented.

Variety description

Cabbage gift was bred in 1961 and is still in demand among gardeners for its high consumer properties. This is an old variety of Russian selection. She has few shortcomings, but there are plenty of useful properties (unpretentiousness, resistance to diseases, pests and frosts).

Successful harvest can be achieved when planting in clay and loamy soils, since with increased acidity the crop will not be born. Requires good lighting throughout the day, shading can affect the quality and quantity of the crop. Cabbage Podarok belongs to mid-late varieties (ripening time - 4.5 months).

The variety description is as follows:

Heads of cabbage are dense, round, large, weighing about 5 kilograms, gray-green in color, white in section.
The diameter of the outlet is about 1 meter, large enough, leaves with a waxy coating, sprawling and raised, wavy along the edge. Outer they are grey-green.

Cabbage also contains vitamin C, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, sulfur, fiber, lactose, as well as vitamins A, B1, B6, C, K, P and U, which cures stomach and duodenal ulcers. It helps with heart diseases, cleans the walls of blood vessels.

Growing

Cultivation of cabbage is very effective through seedlings. It is usually sown in April-May. At the same time, the soil plays an important role, since the yield of cabbage depends on the microelements contained in it. It should consist predominantly of peat (75%).

Sow the seeds according to the 5x5 scheme, to a depth of 1.5 centimeters into the ground. The temperature in the room should be no more than 18 degrees. The first sprouts appear, as a rule, in a week, and when 4-5 leaves grow on seedlings, the plant is ready for transplanting into open ground. This should be done at the end of May - beginning of June.

It is best to plant cabbage on the land where legumes, cucumbers or potatoes grew last year. The soil after them is rich in nitrogen, which is considered an excellent option for growing this vegetable.

You can not plant plants close to each other, optimally at a distance of 60 centimeters. It is necessary to regularly water, weed and loosen the soil. And, of course, it is important to fertilize it. By following these simple rules, you can achieve a good harvest.

Features of care

Cabbage Care The gift is quite simple. Here, timely watering, fertilization and pest protection are considered the main requirements.

At the heading stage, watering should be provided at least 2 times a week. Cabbage also requires hilling every 2-3 weeks and loosening the soil. As a rule, the plant is fertilized three times during the growing period. Urea or manure are well suited as fertilizers, some gardeners fertilize with nitrogen in the first stage, complex fertilizer in the second, and potassium in the third.

The fruits ripen 125 days after planting, they are harvested in September-October, preventing the plants from stretching. Then a good harvest will not keep you waiting, you can collect up to 10 kilograms per square meter.

Pros and cons

Cabbage gift has practically no drawbacks, except that it requires good lighting (does not tolerate shade at all) and abundant watering. Among its most advantageous advantages are the following:

possibility of growing in any climatic zone of Russia;
high fertility and productivity of this variety;
cabbage A gift is well kept, without losing its taste properties;
good for canning and pickling;
rarely exposed to disease;
frost resistant.

Pests and diseases

Cabbage gift is disease resistant. If tomatoes, garlic and onions grow next to her, then the diseases characteristic of plants are not afraid of her at all.Pests can cause more damage to cabbage. But they can also be de alt with by folk methods. Let's take a closer look at the most common insect pests and how to get rid of them:

The most dangerous for cabbage is aphid. If she damaged the plant, the crop can no longer be saved. Therefore, it is better to prevent the danger than to try to cope with it later. There are many control measures, including folk ones: soap solution, garlic infusion.
Cruciferous fleas gnaw through the leaves, as a result, the cabbage withers and dries. You can fight them by weeding weeds in a timely manner.
The cabbage fly eats the roots of a plant. To combat it, use ash, pepper or tobacco, adding them through loosening the soil.
Snails and slugs eat roots and leaves. You can exterminate them by breeding toads in the country, they eat these pests with pleasure. Also, the beds are sprinkled with crushed shells, lime and ash. These activities will get rid of insects.
Cabbage scoop is a butterfly whose activity is manifested mainly at night. She lays larvae on most garden crops. The scoop eats heads of cabbage and leaves its offspring in them. Digging up the earth in autumn is considered the best method of prevention, and spraying with chemicals also has a good effect.

Harvest and storage of crops

Cabbage is harvested on the 125th day from the moment of the first shoots. September-October is the best time to collect it. It is better to start it on a cool cloudy day at a temperature of 4-7 degrees. Heads cut in such weather will be stored longer.

The cabbage is pulled out of the ground with the root and the stump is cut with a knife, leaving 3-4 centimeters. After that, the heads are sorted:

more friable are used for s alting;
dense laying in storage.

Store in the basement on wooden shelves at a temperature of +1-5 °C. Humidity should be 90-98%.

Reviews of gardeners

Each product finds its supporters and opponents. Cabbage is no exception. Most reviews of the gift are positive. They talk about it as an old reliable variety that keeps well and does not lose its taste until spring.

Delicious in s alting, excellent cabbage rolls are obtained from it. There are no problems and difficulties in the process of growing. However, it does not like drought and is considered a favorite crop of butterflies and pests.

But some people also write negative reviews, for example, along with the gift, a person grew another variety, and the gift showed a much worse result than the analogue, and the pests caused significant damage to the crop. But perhaps this is a coincidence or the consequences of incorrect care of the culture.Basically, all gardeners recommend cabbage gift for growing.