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Do you grow Asian vegetables?
Thanks for sharing. I know Chinese greens, such as Gai-Lan, are heavy feeders. Below is my appraoch:
Start the seed in seeding bed. Before transplanting seedlings, prepare soil by mixing in a lot of compost, along with balanced fertilizer (10-10-10) . This will help the seedings to develope healthy root system. When the plant is about 5~6 " tall, side dress with Nitrogen rich fertilizer such as Blood Meal (13-0-0).
I also found that rotating crop is important to reduce leave rot and insects problem.
Do you grow Asian vegetables?
I wonder if any one can share how/what/when you apply fertilizers, as well as any soil treatments, throughtout planting season, when growing Asian Cabbage family (Gai Lan, Choi Sum, Bok-choy,,, etc).
Thanks!
Do you grow Asian vegetables?
I live in San Jose. Almost all Gai-Lan seed I had bought from Chinese grocery store (often carries the brand Long-Yi) are of the "Green-delight" variety, where the stem is thin and leaves are largeand light-green in color. It is not very good. The "normal" gai-lan (like we buy from market) are of the "Blue-star" variet (stem is large and leaves are more wrinkly, deep-green in color with some while-power looking coloration. see this website:
http://www.evergreenseeds.com/chinkalgail.html
So please choose your seed with care!
