Salad belongs to early green cultures. It in this group - the leader. The early harvest from the beds will provide with vitamin, organic greens the family, will allow to save money. It is possible even to earn from sale of fresh salad if desired a little.
To receive salad harvest in the early spring, it is necessary to pay attention to the following important points.
1. Choice of the place for cultivation
In spite of the fact that salad - culture cold-resistant, it is necessary to grow up it on beds warm, getting warm the sun, high-fertile where early field works are possible. Places at the southern wall of the house or the shed will be the best.
Salads badly grow on the sour soil. They do not suffer introduction of fresh manure. It should be considered.
2. Choice of grade
For receiving early salad it is necessary to give preference to early ripening varieties. Sheet salads manage to grow in 40-50 days from crops of seeds, to give good products in May in the open ground. The headed group has more long term of cultivation, 50-80 days. It is better to cultivate salads with headed form in greenhouses or greenhouse shelters.
Not each grade will be suitable for early cultivation. Many grades of salad differently react to length of daylight hours and can strelkovatsya. The most guaranteed from sheet grades: Kucheryavets Odessky, Lola Ross, Moscow greenhouse, New Year's, Delightful. From headed group: Arctic, Berlin yellow, Miracle of four seasons, Sprinter and others.
3. Cultivation of seedling will provide early harvest
Crops of seeds is carried out to cartridges (pots) if grow up without sword-play. It is possible to seed in boxes, then to raspikirovat seedlings. Salad normally develops at moderate temperatures and watering. Additional illumination is necessary at crops of seeds in very early terms, for example, in February. The age of seedling is from 5 to 7-8 weeks.
Before planting of plant temper.
4. Landing of seedling in soil
Land sheet grades to the open ground according to the scheme: between ranks of at least 15 cm, between plants about 10 cm. For the best survival of plant cover with nonwoven fabric, and at sharp cold snaps also film. The early salad which is grown up in the open ground is loosened several times and weeded, watered as required.