Planting lettuce

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The planting of lettuce can be done throughout the year. Its seeds, because they are too small, can be mixed with fine sand and spread best if sowing in beds.

The germination takes 4 to 6 days. The lettuce prefers sandy-clay soils, rich in organic matter. When they are 6 to 8 leaves and 8 to 10 cm, they must be transferes to well fertilized plots, so that the plant keep the neck above the ground and distance between plants of 30 cm. Only the seedlings more developed, strong and healthy should be planted . Another important is that we must be careful is to plant the seedlings with roots tangled or bent and they should not be planted too deep.

The fertilization of the beds can be made ​​only with organic fertilizer, which is made with animal manure. When the bed is ready, we put a layer of manure evenly distributed over the surface, on the basis of 20 liters per square meter, spread it well and mix it at the surface layer of the soil, leaving her in planting conditions. To prevent the lowering of the land due to irrigation and rain, the soil should be slightly compressed, avoiding the vegetables from having their roots out of the ground.

The crop must be be cleaned, watered and irrigated as needed. All weeds that grow between the vegetables should be torn with their roots, with one hand or a hoe. This is necessary because they compete with the planting, stealing nutrients from the fertilizer and shading, avoiding vegetables receiving the amount of sun required.

Organic fertilizer

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The soil organic matter results mainly from vegetable waste, although the animal remains contribute significantly in its composition. Thus cattle, microorganisms from the terrain, insects and man himself, directly or indirectly, participate in the decomposition of plant residues and their distribution through the layers of soil. For this and other reasons, we find plots with different levels of organic matter. These levels reach the maximum in peaty soils and down to the minimum value in desert soils. Manure is what is most precious on a farm.

Our garden is very well fed with organic fertilizer, most of it is manure. It is bought always in the same place because we trust on that person. It is important that the manure is of good quality to avoid diseases and have a good harvest. It comes always with many earthworms which is very good for your soil, a soil with earthworms means it has life and it breaths. Only one thing the seller told us, is that there are some plant roots inside the manure which are bad for the soil. That is because that kind of plant roots are not digested by the animals. To solve that problem, while we distribute the manure on the garden we are checking for the roots and we take them off and leave it in the garbage because it's not useful even for waste compound.