Recently, gardeners, along when forcing onions and other vegetable plants began to grow in the so-called indoor garden beds and a salad. However, as evidenced by the editorial mail, it is not every work. To change the situation, try to find out the cause of the failure. For cultivation in the room are only suitable varieties of lettuce. Of this group, the best suited grades such as Moscow greenhouse and Amanda, that already after 20-25 days after sowing, leaves can be cut for use. Other varieties of lettuce crop formation period longer than 2-5 times.
Lettuce can be grown throughout the winter season in the room, sowing it in about 15 days.
Lettuce requires a moderately warm growing conditions and good lighting. This culture can not stand the heat, prolonged illumination direct sunlight and drying of the soil. If the lettuce is growing and under such conditions, it forms a very small greens, which also becomes rough, bitter and unpalatable.
It is best to grow lettuce in a box filled with light fertile soil. Rows are placed 6-8 cm After thinning the plants leave the same distance in rows.
Seeds are sown in furrows depth of 1.5 cm after planting furrows pritrushivayut soil. Watering should fine atomization, repeating the watering after three or four days. You can not avoid waterlogged soil and getting water on the leaves, the plants do not rot. After emergence, "beds" to carry the light or provide a good supplementary lighting with fluorescent lamps.
To create conveyor salad greens can be limited razvodochnogo box seedlings grow, and then the two-leaf stage in a plant raspikirovat "beds" larger area.
The seedlings can be planted on the edges of boxes, planted with cucumber or tomato, ie to use as a salad plant compactor.
When cleaning plant pulled entirely. This is to ensure that both the other salad was able to build a solid sheet mass.
