Over the past 10 years, the Agressor variety cabbage has found its admirers not only in the face of gardeners, but also medium-sized farms, as well as large agricultural enterprises. A hybrid of this quality is difficult to underestimate. Designed for areas with a difficult climate, it needs minimal care.
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Description and characteristics of cabbage varieties Agressor
The variety was bred by Dutch breeders, and in 2003 became known in Russia.It is widely known in the northern regions due to its frost resistance and drought resistance.
Srednepozdny grade with a period of full maturation 110 - 120 days. The heading is rounded, dark green, white-yellow at the cut. Weight from 2.5 to 5 kg.
Leaves with white paraffin bloom. The stalk is wide, but in height it takes 1/3 of the height of the head. Excellent taste, high content of B vitamins, vitamin C.
Advantages and disadvantages
In this variety, the advantages clearly level all the flaws, and most gardeners and farmers, seeing the Aggressor harvest in the beds of their neighbors, no doubt choose this variety.
The advantages include such significant characteristics as:
- High yield;
- Full heading on depleted soils under difficult weather conditions;
- High seed germination;
- The possibility of sowing seeds in open ground;
- Shelf life up to six months;
- Resistance to many diseases and pests;
- Commercial appearance during long transportation.
The disadvantages, which in fact are not many, do not frighten, and farmers can easily cope with them:
- Sort very likes aphid and whitefly;
- Middle resistant to keel;
- Cracked when fully matured;
- When salting a little bitter.
For this purpose, the seeds are planted in mid-April, and by mid-July they have on the table high-quality, dense, formed forks without pests under the outer sheets.
Growing seedlings
If you have the ability to sow seeds directly to the grounddo not avoid it. You and save yourself from unnecessary labor, but also get a strong harvest. If in May frosts in your region reach minus 8 degrees, and below, the variety must be sown seedlings.
Soak the seeds for 2 to 3 hours, spreading them on gauze. Sow in cooked soil. Recess above 2 cm. Pour generously with warm water and cover the container with foil.Do not open the film before germination, it will create the necessary microclimate in the greenhouse.
Before planting in the ground do not plant sprouts, even if they grow closely. The main thing at this time - constant watering and enough sun. Arrange the seedlings so that the morning sun always illuminates it.
In the daytime, if the temperature is above 15 degrees, on a sunny day, you can carry out the hotbed on the street, or in the greenhouse, it will harden it, and help to avoid certain diseases.
Growth conditions
"Aggressor" is unpretentious, and therefore, you do not have to pick up a soil for planting, a special place, or think about the neighborhood with other vegetables.
Sort doesn’t really need full daylight, this means that you can arrange the beds behind the bushes. It is important that the afternoon sun illuminates the sprouts. Cabbage can not stand the afternoon heat, and even adult plants noticeably wither and lose moisture.
Soil preparation
There is no special need to pick up the soil for planting. Sort soil tolerant. If you have a choice, you may well use the plot with the sod removed. Cabbage will be arranged by that composition of the soil, and by next year you will have a plot developed for vegetables.
Try to form the beds from north to south, so the morning sun will reach each head to the full. It is better to make beds of medium height so that the intercourses are lower than the root level when planting.
Adjust the width of the beds under 2 - 3 heads, as with manual watering you will often need to walk a lot between the beds.
Transplanting
In late May - early June, you can land seedlings in the ground.
It is important to choose non-dry days. A few cloudy days will serve you well. Planting in the rain will sprout quickly and painlessly to settle down in a new place, and rainy weather definitely does not foretell frost, which means that the seedlings can not be covered after transplanting.
This variety has medium-sized spreading leaves, and it is better to follow distance between heads 50 to 50 cmso the plant will have enough light and space.
- On the garden make holes 20-30 cm deep.
- Spill the wells with at least 2 liters of water.
- Add a handful of last year's manure, and 1 tbsp. l wood ash.
- Carefully separate the plant from the seedling box and place it in the well while standing.
- Sprinkle with soil, and press down the root.
- Spill each well of seedlings with another liter of warm water.
- Shade if the weather is hot for 2 - 3 days.
Departure after landing
The variety is unassuming in the care, and a week after planting you can safely forget about the cabbage for a week.
Watering is best done in the eveningand it is not scary if the water is cold. Once a week, you need to loosen the basal hole before watering, since it is in it that the larvae lay their pests.
If you find a plant that does not develop, looks much smaller than the rest, the head does not curl, remove it with the root. If you find a keel burn it, or throw it out of the garden. Do not throw in the compost diseased sprouts.
Raking cabbage is necessary at the beginning of the forcing of the head. As soon as the inner leaves began to round inward, spit the ground around the sproutspill two liters of water.Sprinkle the basal area with a handful of ash, and rake it almost to the beginning of the leaves.
Disease and Prevention
This hybrid is resistant to most diseases, but there are those whose formation is worth watching.
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- Damage to cabbage roots
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- Mildew
These are such as:
- Quila. Plant with this fungal disease does not develop, remains in the size of the seedlings. An easy way to fight it helps to dip the root before planting clay in a liquid solution. Get rid of diseased plants. For more than 2 years do not plant cabbages in one place;
- Mildew. Gray scurf on the leaves, or yellowish spots speak about this disease. Damaged leaves should be burned and not allowed to fall into the compost. For treatment, 500ml. Bordeaux fluid diluted in 10 liters. water and process all plants. Watch for the appearance of similar stains.
Harvesting and storage
The aggressor is a high-yielding variety, and from one weave, when planting 50 * 50, you can easily get from 700 kg to 1 ton of quality cabbage.
Gardeners recommend using other varieties for souring, but it is ideal for use in fresh, canned and even frozen form.
For fresh storage can not expose the cabbages even a slight frostbite. Leave when cutting leg 3 - 5 cm. Remove the spoiled, or chopped upper leaves. Suspend by the foot in a dark, dry room with a temperature of about 10 degrees above zero.
When storing cabbage in bulk, you need to check more than once every 2 weeks, sort, and clean the tarnished leaves. The leaves, and then the head, spoil from contact with each other. If it is not possible to visit the vault frequently, prefer hanging.
Gardeners of the most northern regions choose the variety, and thanks to proper care and hardening of the seedlings, the harvest volumes are equal to the average strip yields. He earned the trust of farmers and agronomical holdings for many years, and is now actively distributed due to its qualities.