Growing different types of lettuce - planting and proper care (Tver)
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Salad: types and cultivation
In fact, strictly speaking, all conversations of summer residents that this one, for example, is unpretentious, and that there is a terrible whim, is pure deceit. And his goal is to justify his personal failures in the garden. Because absolutely all plants need the same thing — proper care.
Two Important Points in Growing Lettuce
Outside the window there is cold and snow, and the soul is warm and joyful. Why?
But because I constantly think about the cottage, the more the new season is just around the corner and preparations for it are in full swing. And the matter is not only in the care of seedlings - after all, you still need to plan ahead for future planting: where, how much, and most importantly, what I will grow.
And since every summer clerk asks these questions, I want to talk about one of the most winning crops in the garden - an ordinary sowing salad. This is truly a universal plant. I plant it in the spring and in the greenhouse (to get early crisp greens), and in the open ground, when the warm weather has come into its own (to enjoy it all summer), and even in flower beds (to give them a more magnificent volume).
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In general, all the salad is familiar, and everyone is always happy with it. However, it is not as simple as it seems.
Sometimes it happens that I plant it in time, and take care, as expected, and the leaves are not at all fine - some small ones with faded edges. And then it will go to the arrow, then it will suddenly begin to rot. Just think, the grass is foliage, and there it is naughty! At first, I could not figure out his character, but eventually I understood what he needed and, most importantly, what was not needed. In order for the salad to always be large, crunchy, not to age or bitter for a long time, in my opinion, it is necessary to observe several rules.
1. Firstly, I stopped planting salad after salad. And I advise everyone to do the same! Yes, I know that this is a precocious crop, but you can also choose another predecessor - radishes, winter garlic, and onions on a feather.
2. Secondly, if you want to get delicious greens as soon as possible, sow only leaf varieties, because semi-oats and kochannye have a longer growing season is very demanding for the mineral composition and intervals between plants. While you have a decent head, the early cabbage will do, too, but you really do not want to wait!
The best salad varieties
My favorite varieties are Ruby lace (carmine-red), Mercury (almost black), Yeralash (light green, curly) and widely known Moscow greenhouse. But last season my favorite was a leaf salad Perseus. It has excellent quality sheet - dark green, with a slightly wavy edge and an oily texture.
Salad: planting and care
Now briefly about leaving. Sowing spend in the grooves. I sow quite thickly, cover the seeds with my palm and press lightly on top. I cover the first sowing in open ground (in April) with covering material, pulling it onto pre-installed arches. After that, I am patient and wait for the shoots - and the salad thinks for a long time.
I water the soil as it dries, after emergence - in a day. Salad, like any leafy vegetable, loves water, but not overflow.
Therefore, when it gains strength, moistening should be shortened: watered, only when I notice that the leaves began to droop slightly (but do not fade!). Separately, I note that if the salad is thirsty, it will grow bitter.
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Now about the distance between lettuce plants ...
I already said that I sow quite a lot, and therefore, as soon as the lettuce grows slightly, I start to thin out when I need green in the kitchen: after watering, I simply take out the plants with roots from moist soil, and the rest grow freely. Only when the planting is unsealed does the salad turn out to be large.
And yet: never feed up the growing planting of lettuce! Especially with nitrogen, although it is always on it that any garden grass mussel always responds best.
And the fact is that all the talkers and infusions will go straight to you in a plate in the form of nitrates, not having had time to rework, as it often happens.
I apply all fertilizers only in advance when preparing the soil for planting. I usually sprinkle leaf humus and ash (it contains the two most essential elements of the salad - potassium and calcium). Remember that it is from a lack of calcium that mass decay of plantings begins, and with a lack of potassium - the so-called marginal burn: drying of the outer edges of the leaves.
With timely weeding, loosening and proper care, the salad will delight you with juicy greens for a long time. But still his age is not very long. Therefore, as soon as the first sowing grows to its full potential, I immediately do the next, then another one - and so four times a season. Successful to you "salad turnover", friends! Tasty and beautiful dishes with his participation!
One of the photos shows Perseus salad after it got frozen (it was October 4th).
© Author: A.Ziborova Tver
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I really like greens and especially a lettuce. From the varieties I distinguish the curly salad of Lollo Biond, the early-ripe Sandwich and Emerald, the bright-burgundy Gluttonous.
Lettuce is a photophilous plant. In addition, it withstands small frosts, which means that it can be sown at the very beginning of the summer season and until late autumn. A salad grows quickly - from 30 to 100 days (depending on the variety).
I prepare the garden bed in advance, the soil should be nutritious and loose. For 1 square. m add half a bucket of humus, 1 tbsp. l nitrofoski and dig. I divide the garden into 2 parts, I sow the first immediately, and the second - later
2 weeks. This method allows you to harvest gradually.
Sow the seeds dry in the grooves. Then I tamp the crops and pour them with warm water. Shoots appear within a week, and when the seedlings reach 2-3 cm, I spend thinning. Planting a salad needs weeding, loosening between rows and watering - better by sprinkling.
Leaf salad, if you remove it with roots and put in a pan with water in the refrigerator, you can store a week. If there is a lot of salad, I divide it into leaves and pack it in plastic bags. So you can store the product in the refrigerator until 3-4 weeks.
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This seasonal salad is for the whole season, so that it is always fresh on the table. First, I soak for a day in a solution of "Epin-extra" (2 drops on a glass of water). I wrap it in a hebash wet cloth, put it in a warm place in the kitchen and wait for it to peck. I open the rag, I dry the seeds a little, so that they become loose, and I immediately plant a line on the bed.
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Salad from seeds in the early spring on a window sill is difficult to grow, so I buy a salad in pots in a regular supermarket, cut off the leaves and use them for food, and put the roots together with a pot into the water. When new white roots appear, transplant the salad into a container with fertile soil.
In late March - early April, when the sun begins to shine brighter and longer, I grow lettuce from seeds. I like the Lollo Ross variety - its leaves are crunchy, very decorative, it is resistant to flowering.
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Lettuce can be sown in the ground almost immediately after thawing the ground. But, unfortunately, the earliest varieties are leafy with an oily consistency of leaves. And most of all I like crunchy cabbage varieties, especially the classic Iceberg. It grows slower than leaf lettuce, so I grow it through seedlings to get an early harvest. I sow seeds one at a time in peat cassettes in mid-April.
First, the shoots require room heat, then gradually I accustom the seedlings to coolness so that it can be planted in the ground in early May under light shelter. It is very important at an early stage to ensure constant soil moisture, but without excess - the indoor shoots of the salad are very tender and easily rot.
I transplant salad in a bed, well seasoned with autumn humus, and in spring flavored with complex microelement fertilizer. The top layer should be very loose and nutritious, because the roots of the salad are superficial, fragile. The distance between the plants leaves a large, 30-40 cm, because the head of lettuce build up a large rosette of leaves.
After transplanting for a while I keep seedlings under cover, and then I cover it only when very cold nights. Moderate cool salad is only beneficial. With this method of cultivation in June, excellent crunchy cochunce will form.