Cabbage is a very tasty and healthy vegetable, which many people eat fresh or use it to create various dishes with salads. Growing it is not so easy, since this plant needs regular fertilization. There are various ways to fertilize this vegetable, but quite often cabbage is fed with yeast.
Before using yeast as a fertilizer, you need to familiarize yourself with the features of using yeast fertilizer for cabbage.
Yeast Benefits
Some inexperienced vegetable growers doubt whether yeast can be used to fertilize plants. They can be used for feeding:
- garden or indoor flowers;
- ornamental shrubs;
- vegetable or garden crops.
The only exception is onions with garlic and potatoes. It is better to feed such vegetables with other fertilizers.
They contain fungi, with the help of which the rate of decomposition of organic compounds increases several times. This protects young bushes from various pests and has a positive effect on the soil microflora. They also contain a large amount of proteins that take part in the development and growth of cabbage. Therefore, many vegetable growers add yeast to the soil if the plant does not have enough light for normal development.
Before feeding, yeast must be dissolved in water. When yeast combines with liquid, compounds appear that significantly strengthen the cabbage root system. They are also responsible for transferring vitamins necessary for the development of seedlings.
The main advantage of the product is that it is very stable. It takes quite a long time to wash out from the surface of the leaves even during heavy rainfall. It also copes with temperature changes without problems.
Its enemy can be considered aggressive bacteria that can slow down the development of yeast fungi.
Basic recommendations
Before watering the bushes with yeast fertilizer, you need to familiarize yourself with the basic recommendations that will help you do everything correctly:
- It is necessary to feed cabbage with a yeast solution only if the soil is well heated. In low temperature conditions, the fungus will develop too slowly, and such feeding will not bring the desired results.
- You should not use yeast fertilizers too often. They should only be used as fertilizing to treat diseased bushes or when transplanting seedlings into the ground.
- It is recommended to use other fertilizers along with yeast so that fertilizing is as effective as possible.
Making yeast mixtures
To feed cabbage with yeast, you need to familiarize yourself with how to properly prepare a fertilizer solution. There are two main ways to create mixtures.
Dry yeast
To prepare the fertilizer, you need to mix 150 grams of product and 80 grams of sugar in 10 liters of water. The solution is thoroughly mixed and infused for at least three hours. After this, the prepared starter is poured into a large container and filled with another 20 liters of water. Then the mixture is infused for another two days and can be used to fertilize cabbage.
Raw yeast
This cooking method is slightly different from the previous one. In this case, you will have to dissolve a kilogram of product in 5 liters of heated water. Then the liquid should be fermented for 5-7 hours, after which it will need to be filled with 10 liters of cold water. The prepared solution is mixed and placed in the cellar for further storage.
Using other yeast supplements
Quite often, feeding cabbage with yeast in open ground does not achieve the desired result. Therefore, it is necessary to use other fertilizers along with this product.
Ash
Some vegetable growers use wood ash along with yeast solutions. It is ideal for fertilizing neutral or acidic soil.It contains not only phosphorus and potassium, but also such useful microelements as zinc, sulfur, magnesium and potassium. Cabbage bushes need all this for normal growth.
Wood ash is also used to spray bushes against all kinds of pests. This procedure should be carried out in the morning, when there is still dew on the plant. If it is not possible to spray the bushes in the morning, then before using the ash, each bush will have to be sprayed with plain water.
To prepare the mixture, you need to add 300-400 grams of ash to hot, boiled water. After this, the container with the solution is placed on a gas stove and brought to a boil. Then the broth is infused, filtered with gauze and mixed with 10 liters of cold water. If desired, you can add a little soap to the mixture.
Boric acid
Boron plays a fairly important role in the formation of cabbage bushes. It is because of this that it is often used together with yeast to feed plants. Using boric acid, you can speed up the metabolic process, stabilize the formation of nitrogen and increase the amount of chlorophyll.
Creating a feeding solution is quite simple. To do this, you need to mix 0.1 grams of the drug with a liter of water. If boric acid is used immediately after yeast, the concentration of the mixture will have to be reduced. To create the mixture, you need to mix 5 grams of the substance with 10 liters of water.
This feeding is carried out three times during crop growth. The first time acid is used is during the appearance of buds.
Potato peel
Some vegetable growers add potato skins to the soil before using yeast. To do this, small holes about 10 cm deep are dug near each bush. A glass of potato peel is added to each of them.Then everything is covered with a thin layer of earth, on top of which the peel is poured again. After this, the dug hole is completely buried with earth.
Spoiled jam
Sometimes vegetable growers use a recipe with spoiled jam to feed yeast. This fertilizer will make the cabbage heads stronger and help the leaves develop more actively. To prepare the mixture, you need to add water with compressed yeast and jam to any ten-liter container. When using a dry product, three sachets will be enough.
The mixture in the container is brought to a boil, stirred and infused for a week and a half. Then a glass of the mixture is added to a bucket of water and mixed. After this, the liquid can be used to spray cabbage bushes. The procedure should be carried out every week on sunny days.
Conclusion
To grow healthy cabbage with large heads of cabbage, it is necessary to regularly feed the bushes. Before using yeast supplements, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with how to prepare and use them. It is also recommended to read in advance the reviews of vegetable growers who annually use yeast for fertilizer.
