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Vegetable growing abroad
Abroad vegetable growing differs in the separate countries assortment of cultures and methods of their cultivation. Among the foreign socialist states specific weight of vegetable growing in plant growing and economy of Bulgaria where cultivate vegetables in a considerable quantity for export is especially high; 1 place on areas under crops and a total yield is occupied with a tomato, then a sweet pepper, vegetable peas, an onions, salad, colour and green-head cabbage, carrot, etc.
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Increase yield of vegetables
In an increase yield and increase in production of vegetables the important role is played by Selection and Seed-growing. The Soviet selectors breed breeds of vegetable cultures for each soil-climatic zone of the country, various ripenings on times, for cultivation in opened and a sheltered ground, consumption in a fresh kind and for different kinds of processing qualitatively new breeds and heterosis forms of plants Are etc. bred also: cold-resistant, determinant, bole breeds of a tomato; keeper and ultra-early ripening breeds of cabbage, and also a breed, resistant against a clubroot; partially monoecious forms of a cucumber; breeds of carrot with the raised content of carotin; an one-seeded table beet, breeds of a beet for an early winter sowing. On 1974 637 breeds (80 %) Soviet selection have been zoned 796 breeds and hybrids of vegetable cultures, from them.
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Measures on an increase yield of vegetable cultures
The basic agrotechnical measures applied to an increase yield of vegetable cultures: use of high-quality seeds of the most productive breeds and hybrids, introduction of efficient rotations with scientifically proved crop rotation, an irrigation, application in sufficient doses organic and fertilizers, agrotechnical, biological and chemical protection frames of plants from pests, diseases and weeds. The soil cultivation system under vegetable cultures includes autumn and a presowing cultivation, and also interrow loosening.
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Vegetable growing – the term 1
Vegetable growing – the branch of agriculture engaging in cultivation of vegetable plants. Melon growing concerns vegetable growing – cultivation watermelons cultures.
Distinguish vegetable growing of an open ground and vegetable growing of the protected (closed) ground. In an open ground cultivate vegetable cultures for reception of vegetables and seeds during the spring-and-summer and autumn periods, in a sheltered ground – vegetables during out-of-season time when on climatic conditions crop reception in the field is impossible, and seedlings for an open ground.
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Cauliflower freezing
Cauliflower touch, remove external leaves and disassemble on separate florescences. Cabbage wash out cold water and scald in the boiling, slightly added some salt water about 3 minutes. Then cabbage cool and shift in the cardboard box which has been laid out by cellophane. The frozen cauliflower can be stored about 6 months.
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Sorrel freezing
For freezing use a young sorrel with gentle leaves of the saturated green colour, collected before formation of flower arrows. A sorrel freeze the whole leaves. It is possible to cut also sorrel leaves large slices.
Before freezing the sorrel needs to be washed out carefully in a considerable quantity of cold water. Then at sorrel leaves cut off green cuttings, large leaves cut on 2-3 parts. After that a sorrel lower in boiling water and scald about 1 minute. For blanching it is necessary to take waters as small as possible – exactly so much that it has covered all sorrel. At blanching the set of nutrients gets into water from a sorrel and the more there will be waters, the more than valuable properties will lose a sorrel.
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Green head cabbage drying
For drying select small, dense heads of cabbage. Heads of cabbage clear of external leaves, cut out from them cabbage stalks. Then heads of cabbage wash and than 5 mm cut a thin straws, in the width no more. The straws from cabbage are filled on a sieve a layer in the thickness no more by than 2 sm and put in a drying cupboard. Dry cabbage at temperature about 70 degrees.
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Cauliflower storage
The cauliflower needs to be cleaned before the beginning of frosts and to store in a cool room, is better in a cellar or a cellar. For a prolonged storage select the strong heads of cabbage intact with a frost and pests. The turned yellow external leaves from cabbage break. Heads of cabbage tie up for cabbage stumps a twine and suspend under a ceiling.
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Chinese cabbage storage
Chinese cabbage clean before frosts and cover in damp sand. That at storage cabbage not fade, after cover it some times water. To store a Chinese cabbage it is possible at temperature from-5 to +4 degrees. https://igardener.org/
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Storage red cultivated cabbage
Red cultivated cabbage intended for a prolonged storage, clean before approach of frosts. At heads of cabbage leave on some external leaves. Heads of cabbage put on a floor, regiments of a rack or in trellised boxes densely to each other. At storage cabbage pour damp sand or soil. The room in which the cabbage is stored red cultivated cabbage, should be aired regularly. Optimum temperature of storage red cultivated cabbage – 2-4 degrees of heat. https://igardener.org/
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