2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
It would be a big mistake to think that August is only harvest time. This month also comes the time when they are busy sowing early crops. In particular, it is still possible to have time to sow cabbage lettuce in greenhouses: in nurseries or greenhouses
Salad is a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients
Is the nutritional value of the salad so great to waste time and space on it? It turns out that in its leaves you can find an almost complete set of vitamins known to science. Therefore, before the arrival of the winter cold, it will be very useful to consume salad regularly in order to strengthen the immune system until the height of the season of colds. In addition to the vitamin complex from the leaves of these vegetables, the body receives iron, potassium and calcium salts, organic acids.
How to choose the right variety
The head lettuce is rich in numerous varieties. They are classified according to both morphological characteristics of the leaf and the timing of ripening. More often there are varieties with an oily leaf, but if plantings are made in a suburban area away from home, then it is recommended to choose varieties with a crispy leaf for sowing. This type of head lettuce tolerates transportation much better without losing the presentation of the leaves.
The salad will ripen for 45-60 days. In order not to miss the harvest time, early ripening varieties should be chosen for sowing in August.
Soil requirements of head lettuce
The most favorable conditions for growing lettuce are in medium loamy soil with a neutral reaction. It can also be planted on light loam, the soil can be slightly acidic. Lettuce needs fertile soil, so it will feel good where, under its predecessors, the beds were generously filled with organic matter. Poor soils in the year of planting lettuce are recommended to be fertilized with humus or rotted manure.
Sowing seeds for seedlings
Seeds are sown in furrows approximately 1-1.5 cm deep. Seeds sown in the nursery at a temperature of + 22 … + 24 ° C will show seedlings after three days. After about a week, the seedlings need to be thinned so that the distance between the plants is about 2 cm.
The seedlings are observed until the moment when 2-3 true leaves are formed on it. At this point, your plantings will need to be thinned again, leaving only the strongest seedlings in the nursery. The distance between them will need to be maintained about 4-5 cm.
Transplanting lettuce seedlings to a permanent place
The plants are moved to a permanent place, when they form 4 true leaves each. As a rule, this happens on the 20-25 day. The head lettuce is placed on the garden bed, depending on the size of the variety, according to the scheme 25 by 30 cm or 25 by 40 cm. Plants need space, otherwise the heads of cabbage are tied poorly and the yield will be less. In addition, when lettuce is planted too close to each other, then favorable conditions for the development of diseases are created in the beds.
Caring for salad in the garden
After transplanting seedlings into open ground for 6-7 days, when it is firmly rooted, loosening the soil is carried out. This measure is an effective method of pre-empting weeds. The last time the beds are loosened before closing the rows.
Moderate watering is suitable for the salad. And after the closing of the leaves and the formation of heads of cabbage, abundant moisture in the beds even harms the plantings. As for dressings, then on high-quality fertilized areas you can do without them.
If the planting of seedlings was carried out not in a greenhouse, but in open ground, then during a cold snap it must be protected with a film. The head lettuce is removed from the beds when the head of cabbage is at least 5 cm in diameter. Harvesting is carried out in the morning, but after the dew has melted.
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