Lettuce leaves
Lettuce leaves are popular all year round. Lettuce crops are annual plants. These include lettuce, Chinese cabbage, watercress, mustard, dill, spinach, etc. There are over 100 types of lettuce in different colors and shapes.
Lettuce, head lettuce must be grown in greenhouses and open ground as compactors and independent crops. The salad is a light-loving and cold-resistant plant. Young lettuce plants tolerate frosts of about 1-2 degrees. Thanks to this advantage, lettuce in open ground can be sown in early spring and autumn. Winter sowing is also possible.
The best temperature for normal growth and development of plants is 10-17 degrees. In dry and hot weather, lettuce shoots quickly and produces very little production.
The salad should be planted very finely, then the leaves rot less and are damaged by fungal diseases. Caring for the salad consists of watering it regularly, especially in hot weather. Leaves should not be moistened in order to avoid fungal diseases. Lettuce grows very quickly, so fertilizers are applied in small quantities.
It is better to harvest the salad early in the morning and immediately cool the salad, then the plant retains its freshness and transports longer.
Lettuce leaves are dietary and delicious. The salad has a low calorie content, it is rich in vitamins and minerals. This culture is now considered to be truly popular. The salad can be perfectly grown even on a windowsill, subject to certain conditions.
I do not apply any fertilizers, and the salad still grows well on my site. As for growing on the windowsill, it seems to me that the idea is unsuccessful.
And my salad is constantly bitter, even when I don't put fertilizers in the soil ... anyway (What could it be?
The bitterness in lettuce leaves is associated with age. Therefore, you need to sow the salad on several dates, and collect the very first and earliest leaves.
Thank you very much for your answer, I will know! And I was advised to postpone with humus and fertilizer - it's not about him, right?