Early varieties of lettuce are easy to grow on your own plot

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Salad is a plant containing many useful minerals and vitamins, its low calorie content and high taste make it an indispensable product in the diet of those who are on a diet; the excellent decorative qualities of the leaves make it indispensable for decorating holiday table dishes. Grown lettuces are divided into two types:

  • cabbage
  • sheet.

Growing lettuce is not very difficult; even beginners can get a tasty and healthy harvest. The plant itself has many advantages.

  • It is surprising that the tender pale green shoots have enviable endurance and can withstand low temperatures and even frosts for several days. This allows you to sow different varieties of lettuce very early, and get your first harvest just as early.
  • The second advantage of lettuce is its early maturity. Just a month and a half after germination, lettuce leaves are already considered ready for harvesting, but if you do not set a goal to harvest the maximum harvest, then you can start collecting grown leaves much earlier, in about a month.

The most popular varieties of lettuce: Oakleaf, Australian, Big Early, Salandbaul, Curly Yellow, Vulcan, Victoria, Moscow Greenhouse, Lollo Rossa, Lollo Biondo Robin, Dubachek.

When preparing salad dishes, first wash it well; to add crispiness, you can leave the leaves in cold water for a while. It is not recommended to cut the salad with a knife; it is better to roughly break the leaves with your hands or even use them whole - this way they will retain more vitamins. Leaf varieties of lettuce are used not only in their raw form - they are added to soups; an original dish is obtained by wrapping a well-seasoned meat filling in boiled leaves and then baking them in the oven.