White cabbage "Pourovo Polopozdni"

Looking for a reliable and delicious cabbage variety for your garden? The "Pourovo Polopozdni" white cabbage is an excellent choice! This *medium-late maturing variety* is specifically bred for *shredding*, making it perfect for coleslaw, salads, and other culinary creations. Enjoy the satisfaction of growing your own crisp and flavorful cabbage!

Key Characteristics of "Pourovo Polopozdni" White Cabbage:

• Medium-Late Maturing: Harvest in approximately 120-130 days from planting.
• Large Heads: Expect sizable, well-formed heads, typically weighing between 3-5 kg.
• Excellent for Shredding: The dense and crisp texture is ideal for coleslaw and other shredded cabbage dishes.
• Good Storage Potential: This variety stores reasonably well, allowing you to enjoy your harvest for an extended period.
• High Yielding: Produces abundant yields under proper growing conditions.
• Resistant to Cracking: Heads are less prone to cracking, ensuring a higher quality harvest.

Key Technical Characteristics:

1. Maturity Group: Medium-late.
2. Growing Season: 120-130 days.
3. Head Weight: 3-5 kg (6.6-11 lbs).
4. Head Shape: Round to slightly flattened.
5. Head Density: Very dense.
6. Leaf Color: Green with a waxy bloom.
7. Resistance: Good resistance to cracking.
8. Yield: High.
9. Storage: Moderate.

What is "Pourovo Polopozdni" Cabbage?

The "Pourovo Polopozdni" is a *popular white cabbage variety* prized for its reliable performance, excellent flavor, and suitability for processing. Its medium-late maturity makes it a great option for extending your harvest season. The tightly packed heads offer a satisfying crunch and a slightly sweet taste, making it a versatile ingredient in various dishes.

Growing and Use Features:

This cabbage variety is relatively easy to grow, making it suitable for both experienced and novice gardeners. Here are some tips for successful cultivation:

• Starting Seeds: Start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last expected frost or direct sow after the danger of frost has passed.
• Soil Preparation: Choose a sunny location with well-drained, fertile soil. Amend the soil with compost or well-rotted manure before planting.
• Planting: Space plants 45-60 cm (18-24 inches) apart in rows.
• Watering: Water regularly, especially during dry periods, to keep the soil consistently moist.
• Fertilizing: Fertilize with a balanced fertilizer every few weeks during the growing season.
• Pest Control: Monitor for pests such as cabbage worms and aphids and take appropriate measures to control them.

Culinary Uses:

The "Pourovo Polopozdni" cabbage is incredibly versatile in the kitchen. Its primary use is for *shredding*, making it the star ingredient in classic coleslaw. However, it can also be used in:

• Salads: Adds a crisp and refreshing element to salads.
• Soups and Stews: Provides a hearty and nutritious addition to soups and stews.
• Fermented Dishes: Excellent for making sauerkraut and kimchi.
• Stir-fries: Adds texture and flavor to stir-fries.
• Roasted or Grilled: Can be roasted or grilled for a delicious side dish.

* Preparing White Cabbage Seeds for Sowing.

Before starting to sow the seeds, check them for germination. Place the seeds in a damp cloth for 4-5 days, making sure the cloth does not dry out. Then, before sowing, treat the dry seeds against diseases in hot water at a temperature of +45+50°С for 15 minutes. After that, immerse the seeds in cold water for 1 minute. Then soak them in a nutrient solution for 12 hours (dilute a teaspoon of nitrophoska, or nitroammophoska, or another complex fertilizer in 1 liter of water), rinse with clean water and place in a cold place for hardening for a day at a temperature of +1+2°С. This speeds up seed germination and increases their cold resistance.

Preparing the Plot.

The optimal soil reaction (рН) for early varieties of white cabbage is 6.5-7.2, and for medium and late varieties on podzolic and sod-podzolic soils - 6.6-7.5, on peat bogs - 5-5.5. Cabbage responds well to lime, which can be applied in autumn or spring 2-3 weeks before planting.

Attention! At рН below 6, cabbage is severely affected by keel.

Cabbage is grown as the first or second crop after the application of organic fertilizers. Good predecessors are legumes, cucumbers, onions, potatoes, beets, tomatoes, and perennial grasses.

To avoid the appearance of pests and pathogens in the soil, as well as a sharp decrease in yield, this crop is returned to its former place no earlier than after 4-5 years.

Early varieties of cabbage can be grown together with tomatoes planted in late May in the rows or beets, which are sown in the rows in June (it will begin to develop after the cabbage harvest). Early white cabbage is grown in well-warmed, quickly drying, elevated areas. It grows well on cultivated light loamy and sandy loamy soils.

Drained peat soils and low areas with medium loamy soil are suitable for mid-season cabbage. Sod-podzolic, medium loamy, loamy, and lowland peat soils are allocated for late cabbage. But on heavy loamy and clay soils with excessive moisture, cabbage is more severely affected by keel, so you can use such areas only after improving their composition.

Late varieties are usually grown in the year the soil is fertilized with manure, early varieties - the year after its application.

The plot for cabbage is chosen open, sunny, fertile, even or having small southern and southeastern slopes.

The best predecessors for cabbage are legumes and grain crops, cucumbers, onions, root crops, potatoes.

Cabbage can grow in one place for no more than 2-3 years.

Cabbage is very demanding on the fertility and structure of the soil. The best soils for it are loamy soils with a high content of organic matter (humus), with a neutral or slightly acidic reaction, good moisture-holding capacity.

The plot for cabbage begins to be prepared in the autumn. Before digging, liming materials are applied to the soil (dolomite flour, hydrated lime, powdered chalk at the rate of 2 cups per 1 sq. m). Liming materials are evenly scattered over the dry area and immediately dug up. In spring, organic and mineral fertilizers are added to the plot. From organic - manure humus or manure-peat compost (a bucket per 1 sq. m), from mineral - powdered superphosphate or nitrophoska (2 tablespoons), wood ash (1-2 cups) and a teaspoon of urea per 1 sq. m. The plot is dug up to a depth of 15 cm. Fertilizers can also be applied directly to the holes before planting seedlings. In this case, 0.5 kg of humus or compost, a teaspoon of superphosphate or nitrophoska and 1-2 tablespoons of wood ash are added to the hole and mixed thoroughly. After that, the fertilized and dug-up area is well watered with water and planting begins.

Growing Seedlings.

In the climatic conditions, cabbage is cultivated by seedling method. To grow seedlings, use garden soil mixed with humus (1:1), to which add sand, peat or peat compost. The optimal daytime temperature for growing seedlings is 15-18°С. At higher temperature and humidity, seedlings can be affected by "black leg". Early varieties of cabbage are sown in the first