Seeds of iceberg lettuce
Offer type: salePublished: 17.11.2015
| Seller: |  Miron Ivanovich |
| Phones: |  0674412532 Show phone |
| Address: | Ukraine, Kyiv |
Early variety iceberg lettuce, growing period from germination to technical ripeness is 65-70 days. Forms a dense head, with well-developed inner layer of the leaves, which are easily separated, weighing up to 800 g. the Leaves are intensely green, corrugated, juicy, crisp, pleasant taste.
The cultivar "iceberg" is valued for its high commercial quality, resistance to bolting and downy mildew. Used for fresh consumption and long-term storage, up to three weeks.
Sowing seeds
Lettuce is grown as seedlings, and sowing seeds in the ground unprotected. Although seedlings grown much rarer since transplantation greatly weakening the plants.
In the spring planting of lettuce, the seeds are sown in the ground since April, and then the "production line" at intervals of 7-10 days until mid-June. In the summer he gives the stalk, it starts to become bitter and lose nutritional value.
For early lettuce, you can plant seedlings, seeds of which are sown in the substrate at 30 to 35 days before planting in open ground. Lettuce seeds germinate at +5°C at +20°C seeds germinate worse.
The density of sowing the seeds
Seeds are sown in open ground ordinary way, at a distance of 20-25 cm from row row in shallow furrows, to a depth of 1-1,5 cm. in four weeks after emergence, conduct thinning, leaving the distance in the row for sheet grades 10 cm and 20-22 cm for head
The harvest
Leaf lettuce is ready to eat in 20-30 days, when the plants will form typical for the variety the outlet, but not later than the beginning of occurrence of single stalk plants. Take him at once, pulling out plants by the roots. After harvesting, the lettuce is not washed, otherwise it will rot.
Iceberg lettuce Matures after 50-70 days, cleaning is carried out selectively as the formation of heads. The loaf is cut with a knife, removing the lower leaves rotting.
Packaging
Seeds in bags, weight 1 g.
