When is the best time to tie cabbage?

The best time to bind cabbage is before the first frost.

Generally, Chinese cabbage leaves should not be tied for too long half a month before harvest or before the first frost. It is suggested that the threshing time should be determined according to the specific harvest time, which can improve the yield of Chinese cabbage and the economic benefit accordingly.

Because after the first frost, the weather will get colder and colder and the temperature will be very unstable. Binding leaves to Chinese cabbage in cold season is to protect the heart of Chinese cabbage and keep it warm, so as not to let the leaves freeze off and affect the growth of Chinese cabbage.

When some people tie leaves to Chinese cabbage, cabbage that is too small will not tie leaves, which is actually wrong, because it is too cold, the leaves will be frostbitten, so Chinese cabbage will not grow heart. However, if the leaves are tied, the Chinese cabbage will grow heart, although it is small, because it is warm and it is managed in the later stage.

Precautions for bundling cabbage:

1. Generally speaking, the best position of bundle leaves is 1/3 near the top of the outermost leaves.

The reason why we don't bundle the leaves of 1/2 is to avoid affecting the growth of leaf core after bundling, and also to avoid false core, while all the leaves of 1/3 can be gathered and the leaf core will grow in it.

2. In addition to paying attention to the position of binding leaves, we should also pay attention to the strength of binding leaves, and we should not bind them too tightly.

If the leaves are tied too tightly, they may be injured and rotted, or they may be tied too tightly, so that the leaves in the core do not have enough space to grow and affect the quality of the core.