Plant lettuce in your own garden

Content

• Plant lettuce in your own garden
• The lettuce in the profile
• Prefer lettuce
• The ideal location for the lettuce
• Sow or plant lettuce outdoors
• Growing lettuce in the garden
• Pests that threaten the lettuce
• Harvest lettuce

Lettuce can easily be sown directly in the field

Plant lettuce in your own garden

Lettuce from its own garden delights with its crisp freshness and contains significantly more nutrients than the one from the supermarket. Learn more about how to plant and maintain lettuce in your own garden.

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The lettuce in the profile

Prefer lettuce

If you want to harvest lettuce as soon as possible, you may prefer it at home from the end of January. It is best to germinate the lettuce at temperatures between 15 and 20 degrees, a location on the windowsill of a cooler room is therefore advisable. Do not put more than two seeds per culture dish so that you can pimp them well later. Below is a guide to successful breeding:

The ideal location for the lettuce

Lettuce should be as sunny as possible. In the sun, it not only thrives faster and stronger, the nitrate content also decreases. Furthermore, lettuce likes a loose, humus-rich soil. Therefore, you should dig up the soil before planting or sowing and a generous helping of compost underneath.

Sow or plant lettuce outdoors

So that the lettuce has enough space to grow, you should keep a planting distance of at least 25cm, for large varieties also 30cm. If you want to save the pikieren, you can keep this planting distance even with direct sowing. Otherwise it will be piqued as soon as the plantlets are a few centimeters tall. You can find out more about the ideal planting distance and advantageous plant neighbors here.

Growing lettuce in the garden

Especially right after sowing or planting, it is important to ensure adequate irrigation; but even later, lettuce should be watered regularly. Fertilizing is not really necessary, but if you feel your lettuce is lacking in nutrients, you can treat it with some compost. If you have grown late varieties, you should protect the lettuce heads with a fleece from frost during the colder months of the year.

Pests that threaten the lettuce

Snails love salad. Unfortunately this is not a cliché, but a reality. If you are struggling with snails in your garden, it may therefore make sense to set up a snail fence or similar. The cultivation in the raised bed prevents a snail attack.
Also aphids like lettuce. These can be combated environmentally friendly with nettle stock.

Harvest lettuce

Once the lettuce has reached the desired size, it should be harvested. Depending on the variety, the harvest time is 60 to 120 days after sowing. Here you will find an overview of the most important varieties and their sowing and harvesting dates.