Lettuce planting steps are as follows:

Materials preparation: land, lettuce seeds, shovels, water and so on.

1, land preparation

Prepare a piece of land, if there is no land, you can also use a foam box, planting pots or other planting containers to put some soil inside can also be oh! Soil as much as possible is humus soil, nutrient-rich soil vegetables grow more fertile. There is no fertile soil, ordinary garden soil can also be buried in the soil below the kitchen leftover vegetables and fruits peeling, rotting after the soil will be more fertile, used to plant vegetables with sufficient nutrients.

2, sowing

The soil will be loosened, evenly sprinkled with lettuce seeds, the land is more, you can lettuce seed sowing more sparse, to lettuce to leave enough room to grow, so that you don't have to wait for the vegetables to grow up and then transplanted. If you don't have enough land, you will have to sow the seeds thickly. After the seeds are sown, water them well and attach a layer of fine soil.

3, growth

Generally fall planting lettuce is best, start sowing in September, after sowing water every two or three days to keep the soil moist, sowing about two weeks or so, lettuce will germinate out of the soil. Because the climate is not the same everywhere, so lettuce germination time is not the same.

4, transplantation

Pull out some lettuce seedlings from the middle of the dense lettuce out of transplantation, transplantation is best to choose after a rainy day or cloudy days. If there is no rainy weather, to be transplanted in the evening on a sunny day, transplanted lettuce to maintain more than 10 centimeters apart, watered, the next day to use plastic skins and other things to shade, shade for about three days time, and so on the lettuce to become a living before not to use the shade. This way we can wait for the lettuce to mature.

Species Origin:

Lettuce is a genus of lettuce in the family Asteraceae. It is an annual or biennial herbaceous crop. Green leaf lettuce fiber, white leaf lettuce leaves thin, fine quality, purple leaf, red leaf lettuce colorful, tender texture.

Lettuce originated in the Mediterranean coast of Europe, the past lettuce cultivation in China is not much, more in the south planting. With the reform and opening up, after frequent foreign exchanges, in the past 10 years in some big cities and coastal cities, lettuce planting area gradually more up, followed by many cities in the interior, but also the introduction of test planting, welcomed by consumers. Lettuce has become China's faster development of green leafy lettuce.