Is milk cabbage a baby dish? What is the planting technique?

Milk cabbage is one of the vegetables we often eat, with milky white stems under the green leaves, which taste crisp and somewhat similar to the shape of Chinese cabbage, but slightly larger and nutritious. Is that milk cabbage a baby dish? What is the planting technique?

Is milk cabbage a baby dish?

Milk cabbage is not a baby vegetable. Milk cabbage is a plant type of medium-short fat and broad petiole in non-heading Chinese cabbage (common Chinese cabbage, rape). It is a 2012 herb of Brassica cruciferae. It is cultivated in Guangdong and has very high nutritional value. it has the function of clearing away heat and detoxification, invigorating intestines and stomach and so on. Baby vegetable, also known as miniature Chinese cabbage, is a new variety of vegetables introduced from Japan (South Korea), which has begun to be favored in China in recent years. The appearance is the same as that of Chinese cabbage, but its size is only 1/4 to 1/5 of that of Chinese cabbage, which is similar to the "simulated miniature version" of Chinese cabbage, so it may be called baby vegetable.

Second, what is the planting technology of milk cabbage?

1. Planting time

Milk cabbage can be cultivated in the open field in Beijing from spring to autumn in frost-free period, mainly to harvest young plants. When the temperature is low in spring, it can be harvested in about 40 days, and can be harvested in 22-28 days from summer to autumn. Cultivated in protected areas in cold season, it can be produced all year round and supply the market.

2. Sowing and raising seedlings

The method of seedling and transplantation was used to harvest large plants of milk cabbage, the seedling stage was 20-25 days, the row spacing of planting plants was 15 × 15 cm, and planted to harvest 30 days. Due to the large temperature difference between day and night in Beijing area, it is more suitable for the growth of milk cabbage, the growth period is short, mainly direct seeding, or the overdense seedlings are removed from another place after direct seeding. The strip sowing is better, the row spacing is 1215cm, and the plant spacing is 1015cm when the seedlings are fixed. The sowing rate is 400 to 500 grams per mu.

3. Rational fertilization

The production cycle of milk cabbage is short, so it is appropriate to apply more organic fertilizer as base fertilizer, chemical fertilizer during the growth period, or leaf fertilizer combined with sprinkler irrigation. Topdressing is mainly based on available nitrogen fertilizer, and the method, period and dosage of fertilization should be determined according to seedling condition, soil and weather, and the principle is thin fertilizer for many times.

4. Ploughing and watering

The direct seeding field of milk cabbage is suitable to use herbicides to eliminate weeds when sowing, and weeding combined with seedlings at seedling stage. Watering is generally combined with topdressing. The transplanted seedlings should not be short of water within 3-5 days after planting, and should be watered every morning and evening for 3-4 consecutive days after planting in summer and early autumn.

5. Disease and pest control

The common diseases of milk cabbage include virus disease, downy mildew, white spot disease and so on. Comprehensive agricultural measures can be taken to control them, such as avoiding replanting or adjacent cropping with other cruciferous vegetables, rational drainage and irrigation, and increasing the application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer to improve plant resistance. drug control can be sprayed with fungicides such as chlorothalonil. The main pests are vegetable aphid, stem borer, cabbage butterfly, yellow striped beetle and so on, which should be detected and controlled as soon as possible, and the control method is the same as that of general cruciferous vegetables.