Lettuce leaves have a very attractive appearance and can arouse your appetite. Now lettuce leaves are also widely used as a complementary vegetable for various dishes such as gado-gado, mixed tofu, rujak cingur, burgers, kebabs and others. Lettuce plants come in several types, some are called watercress and some are called curly lettuce, the color of the lettuce is red and green. It likes moist soil, considering the large amount of water content in lettuce. Lettuce seeds don't like hot seeding media. So, when sowing, keep the seeding place under a roof or cover it with a tight net. There are many ways to plant lettuce, one of which is planting lettuce using or using this method, you can easily do it at home. Pay attention to the following steps (1). Choose a minimum size of 20 cm, fill it using something loose, for example a mixture of sand, and cage (2:1:2) (2). Move the lettuce with just two leaves into a pot. The method is to make a hole in the planting medium that is bigger than the root mound. Pay attention to the lettuce roots, remove them and move them carefully. Cover the roots again using planting media by pressing down so that it is quite dense. Lettuce that already has two leaves is carefully transferred into a larger pot or polybag.
The lettuce is ready to be harvested. Usually, the harvest time for lettuce is 35-40 days old. However, harvesting is still adjusted to your needs. If you plant it yourself, harvesting can be done when it is 30 days old.


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