Like any cabbage, pekinka is a long-day plant,” Anna Petrovna emphasizes. — If daylight hours last more than 13 hours, it blooms and sets seeds without producing a head of cabbage. To prevent this from happening, it must be sown at a strictly defined time. There are two such periods in our garden calendar: early spring and the second half of summer. At the end of July – beginning of August, there is enough moisture and nutrition in the soil. And due to the fact that the daylight hours are shorter than in May–June, the plant will not go into arrow mode, and will direct all its reserves of microelements to the formation of heads of cabbage, rather than flower stalks. In addition, when sown in summer, Chinese cabbage grows larger than when sown in spring. And the heads of cabbage can be stored.