Green salad – fine source of vitamins C and E, folic acid and cellulose. It is irreplaceable product for those who keep the figure and seek to lead healthy lifestyle, eating useful products. To grow up lettuce leaves independently not so difficult, it is only necessary to have a little earth and enough light. If desired the small greenhouse can be created even on windowsill.
It is required to you
- - salad seeds;
- - soil.
Instruction
1. Before how to grow upthe subjects salad, it is necessary to buy the corresponding seeds. There is set of types of this plant therefore it is possible to pick up specific grade only depending on personal flavoring preferences. It is one-year culture therefore it is necessary to land it every year.
2. Correctly pick up the place for landing. It should not be in shadow as the plant loves light. But also hit of direct sunshine, especially midday, is not desirable, otherwise salad foliage will just burn.
3. Time of disembarkation of salad depends on climatic zone and grade of salad. In midland it can be sowed in May when the risk of possible frosts is minimum. Prepare the earth, previously having dug up it and having loosened, saving from large lumps.
4. Make small furrow of 1-1.5 cm in depth in the soil. If to plant seeds too deeply, then they will long ascend.
5. Fill seeds in soil, without trying to spread them on one. If they give too dense shoots, then subsequently they can be thinned out. Cover seeds with earth and water. Watering has to be regular, in process of soil drying. From the moment of shoots before receiving harvest there passes about a month, then salad quickly enough outgrows and gains slightly bitter taste. Therefore if there is a wish to enjoy all summer fresh salad greens, in few weeks it is necessary to seed one more bed which will allow to grow up sheet salad in month.