Iodine for cabbage: top dressing and proper processing in the open field

Feeding cabbage is an important point in caring for a vegetable. Not always in the soil there are all the substances necessary for the plant, and the vegetative growth of cabbage requires to make up for the lack of the necessary minerals. Without them, dense heads of cabbage will not form in time, the immunity of the vegetable to diseases and pests will not increase.

Features of growing cabbage

There are many types of cabbage cultivated in vegetable gardens. But for all representatives of a vegetable crop, the same requirements for growing. In regions with a temperate climate, the vegetable is sown first for seedlings, taking into account the fact that 65-100 days are enough for early varieties of cabbage for full development, and 100-130 days for late ones.It is best to grow cabbage outdoors: the vegetable is not afraid of frost and can continue to develop until October, when the harvest of juicy heads of cabbage begins. Vegetable seedlings begin to be planted from mid-May - early varieties, until mid-June - late.

The planting pattern in the ground is 50 x 50 or 60 x 60 centimeters. Before planting vegetable seedlings, 500 grams of humus are added to the wells, mixing with the ground. Then fertilize with ammonium nitrate (two grams), superphosphate (five grams) and potassium s alt (three grams). It is advisable to add half a bucket of river silt to each well. Close up seedlings in the ground to the depth of the stem to the cotyledons. After planting, during the first week, seedlings are planted to replace the dead cabbage shoots.

If you want to get a bigger harvest from vegetable plantations, then you need to properly care for it. This includes procedures such as:

abundant watering;
timely top dressing with organic and mineral substances;
loosening the soil after watering;
weed control, cabbage pests;
prevention of vegetable diseases.

Cabbage should be watered abundantly - a vegetable without soil moisture forty to fifty centimeters deep will not give a good harvest. Two or three liters of water are poured under each bush. Often, watering is combined with top dressing. Fertilizers should not be chaotic, you need to know the timing and rules for feeding cabbage bushes:

Ten days after placing the seedlings on the beds, water the vegetable with mullein, diluted in water in a ratio of 1:7.
You can replace organic matter with minerals. To do this, take ammonium nitrate, in the amount of forty grams, superphosphate - twenty grams and potassium s alt - fifteen grams on a bucket of water.
The second time fertilizer is needed for cabbage with an interval of three weeks. For irrigation use a solution of mullein in a ratio of 1:5 or bird droppings - 1:15.
Ammonium nitrate - sixty grams and potassium s alt - forty grams per ten liters of water are taken as mineral supplements.
A liter of solution is poured under each vegetable bush.

Iodine top dressing is useful for the development of vegetable crops. It can be both root and non-root.

What is useful iodine for vegetable plants

In the composition of iodine tincture, a rare element that is found everywhere. Its concentration is highest in marine plants. The content of iodine is especially high in sea kale, kelp algae. In Russia, the substance is obtained from drilling waters during oil production. In nature, it is found in minerals - iodides.

Iodine has a special place in the human body as a component of thyroid hormones produced by the thyroid gland. Without this element, the development, growth and stability of life is disrupted.

It is known what role such elements as potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen play for the development of a plant organism. But iodine can stimulate metabolism within cells, which leads to the rapid growth of garden crops. When fertilizing cabbage with iodine tincture, the following occurs:

better absorption of nitrogen compounds;
increase in vegetable yield;
getting a plant of vitamin C;
excellent keeping quality of late-ripening cabbage varieties;
acquisition of excellent taste, large size and density by heads of cabbage.

In addition, thanks to iodine, the plant becomes more resistant to diseases.

Terms and rules for applying iodine top dressing

You need to know when and how many times to use iodine to fertilize cabbage. It is best, and safer for plants, to take a 5% alcohol solution of iodine, which is used by humans for disinfection and wound healing.

The rules for applying iodine solution as a top dressing for cabbage consist of the following parameters:

During the formation of heads, water the vegetable bushes with a solution prepared from a bucket of water and forty drops of iodine tincture. One liter of fertilizer will be enough for one plant. Carry out the procedure in cloudy weather after watering vegetable plants.
You can spray the leaves of the plant with the same solution.
Foliar top dressing is carried out using a different concentration of the tincture solution. Prepare it by diluting half a teaspoon of antiseptic in ten liters of water.

Cabbage processing is carried out at the stage of tying the forks. It is imperative for those who spray a vegetable plant to protect their eyes from getting tincture into them. burn.

Feeding with iodine for cabbage is also important at the first stage of vegetable development. Seedlings will be protected from pathogens if they are sprayed once with a solution of septic tincture. To prepare it, add a liter of milk and fifteen drops of iodine to a bucket of clean water at room temperature.

How foliar feeding is done

It is considered effective to spray cabbage with iodine solution on the basis of three or four leaves and during the heading period.

Carry out the procedure in sunny weather. The best time is the morning after a heavy rain, when the soil is sufficiently moist and the leaves of the vegetable have not evaporated all the moisture. It is also good to feed the cabbage with a liquid solution in dew or in the evening when the heat subsides. Spray cabbage bushes from a watering can.

Foliar agricultural technique allows you to quickly bring the necessary trace elements to the green parts of the vegetable.

Feeding efficiency

Those who feed cabbage with a solution of iodine tincture note an increase in the yield of heads of cabbage twice. At the same time, heads of cabbage collected in autumn are dense, juicy, clean, without damage by pests. Iodine repels diseases from vegetables, so dense forks lie for a long time and do not rot. Thanks to top dressing, the harvest is preserved better, and the heads of cabbage have a quality look.

The procedures for applying the solution are easy, effortless. And since iodine contributes to better absorption of nitrogen fertilizers, at the end of the season they get he althy cabbage fruits filled with useful elements and vitamins for the human body.