Cabbage "Moscow Late": description and characteristics of the variety

Summer residents and gardeners like late varieties of cabbage. They are well kept, do not require complex maintenance, are ideal for fermentation. Cabbage "late Moscow" was bred in the All-Union Research Institute of Selection by the method of family and individual selection from the Moscow variety "Pyshkinskaya". The variety was sorted in 1943.

This culture belongs to late-ripening varieties. It is distinguished by high yield, excellent marketable appearance and pleasant taste. It is these characteristics that made this variety a priority for gardeners in the Moscow region and the central part of Russia.

Cabbage "Moscow's Late": description

This variety is acid resistant, unpretentious to soils and leaving. The plant has many advantages that make it popular for growing on garden plots.

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This variety has a large leaf outlet. Its size reaches 110 cm. Rounded or oval-shaped leaves, wrinkled, gray-green in color. They have a weak wax coating. The edges of the leaves are smooth, slightly wavy, with long petioles. Habits coarse and sparse. Heads are very dense, large, juicy, flat-rounded or round in shape. Their average weight is from 4 to 6 kilograms, but often reaches 15 kilograms.

In the context of cabbage, "Moscow's late" is colored yellow-white. The inner stump has an average or short length, the outer stalk is high (about 30 cm).

The yield of the variety is more than ten kilograms per square meter, or about nine hundred centners per hectare. Cabbage "Moscow's late" is a moisture-loving plant. Especially it needs abundant watering in the early autumn.

It is characterized by resistance to pests and damage to whitetail, cracking of heads.

Advantages of the variety

1. High content of sugars and ascorbic acid.
2. Yield, excellent commodity and taste qualities.
3. Suitable for pickling, canning, fresh consumption, long-term storage.

disadvantages

According to the vegetable growers, the main disadvantage of the cultivar is a high external stump, due to which the big heads drop on their sides. To prevent this from happening, cabbage should be highly planted or supports used.

Peculiarities of growing

Cabbage "Moscow Late" is grown in two ways - from seedlings or sowing seeds in the soil. Today from the late-ripening varieties one of the most popular is the cabbage "Moscow's late". Characteristics of the variety allows it to be sown from the tenth of April. The average time for growing seedlings is about 35 days. In addition, this variety can be planted in the soil on the ridges (under the film coating) in the last decade of April.

Before sowing, the seeds of cabbage must be prepared. The quality of the crop depends on this. Dry seeds should be placed in hot (+50 ° C) water for a quarter of an hour, then for one minute in a cold one. After this, they must be immersed in a solution of microelements for twelve hours. Then they are washed under running water and placed in a refrigerator for 24 hours. After all the manipulations, the seeds are dried so that they do not stick to their hands, and they plant them.

Growing seedlings of "Moscow late" cabbage, you should fulfill the following requirements:

• You can use planting in planting pots to remove the weakest plants from the seedlings, or use the pick method;
• For a given cabbage variety, planting cells measuring 8 x 8 cm are needed, which are the optimal area for feeding seedlings;
• So that the seedling does not stretch too high and grows as sturdy as possible, on sunny days it is necessary to withstand the temperature from +15 to +17 ° C, on gloomy cloudy days - not above +15 ° C. At night, the temperature should not exceed +10 ° C;
• Cabbage - the plant is cold-resistant, the seeds of this vegetable culture sprout at a rather low temperature (+3 ... + 5 ° C). A ripe head is able to withstand freezing to -5 ° C.

Cabbage "Moscow late" prefers open areas, with a well-fertilized, fertile soil of a weakly acidic or neutral reaction. The distance between plants when planting should be at least 60 cm, and the aisles - at least 70 cm.

Care

Care for cabbage of this class is standard. It involves regular abundant waterings and a single (for the season) application of complex fertilizers. Good, quality seedlings are strong, have a powerful root system and at least six leaves.

Plant seedlings in the open ground about a month and a half after seeding.

Watering

Cabbage "late in Moscow" loves moisture, but especially abundant watering it is necessary in droughty periods. Watering is carried out in the evening, under the root. Before full ripening of fruits, they are reduced so that the heads do not crack from excess moisture.

Top dressing

The first time the saplings are fed twenty-one days after planting. The next - after twelve and twenty-four days respectively. It is recommended to use diluted bird droppings or slurry. The plant responds well to mulching with compost or humus.

Particular attention should be paid to the control of weeds. Cabbage ridges should be regularly cleaned of them, and after rains and watering, shallow loosening is required, as well as hilling this vegetable culture.

Pests and diseases

Often during the growing season, the plant is affected by cruciferous fleas, cabbage scoops, whiting, cabbage fly, slugs, etc. Cruciferae blots affect young plants and shoots, cabbage fly, whiting and scoop are dangerous for adult plants. To protect against pests and diseases use modern drugs - insectofungicides. Many gardeners prefer using time-tested folk methods, including dolomite flour, wood ash, infusions and decoctions of tomato leaves, wormwood, onions, garlic.

Cabbage "Moscow's late": reviews of gardeners

According to experienced vegetable growers, this is one of the best late-ripening varieties of cabbage. It is ideal for fermentation. In addition, gardeners believe that the cabbage "Moscow Late" is well preserved for a long time (during the winter period), and the excellent taste and remarkable quality of these dense heads get only positive feedback and the highest marks.