Consumption of lettuce leaves is not only way to derive pleasant pleasure, but opportunity to enrich organism with large amount of vitamins. Salad can be grown up as summer on beds, and during the winter period on windowsill directly in your house!
Instruction
1. Choose the capacity in which you will sow salad. Give preference to individual pots of small diameter that at the subsequent sword-play not to injure the root system of salad. If you have stopped the choice on oblong container, then at crops calculate distance between saplings not less than 10 centimeters.
2. Pave the way for crops. Light nutritious substrate well is suitable for salad. Never plant new seeds to the soil in which squash or the same lettuce leaves grew earlier. Prepare mix from the chernozem and organic fertilizers, then shortly salad will surely please you with magnificent greens.
3. Choose the grades which are the most suitable to you from all variety presented at the market of seeds. Choose not frigostable types of salad, otherwise instead of fluffy inflorescence you will have extended weak stalks and pale leaves. The earliest vegetable culture is the garden cress, it is possible to grow up it practically without the sun.
4. Seed seeds of salad or in individual pot, or in many-placed container. In the latter case sow seeds the longitudinal ranks remote from each other on distance not less than 3-5 centimeters. Distribute seeds on the surface of the soil and accurately powder with thin layer of substrate.
5. Prepare the conditions, most suitable for prorashchivaniye of seeds. You hold indoor temperature at the level of +20 degree centigrades. Consider that at rise of temperature salad is extended in height and does not give some magnificent greens. Provide good lighting to all grades of salad, except garden cress which well transfers also North sides with small quantity of sunbeams. At dehumidification of top soil water your saplings with warm water.
6. Feed up your seedlings nitrogen fertilizers or ammonium nitrate when at them appear the two first leaflet. Part mineral substances with warm water and water saplings.
7. Reap your long-awaited crop after 20-25 days after crops. The garden cress is early culture, and its leaves can be collected for the 12th day after emergence of the first shoots.