Salad in the raised bed: These varieties are guaranteed

Green or red, delicate or crisp, round or jagged? Green salad comes on the table in a colorful variety. Now it is time to select such a selection in the garden or on the raised bed pick up.

The original form of the salad next are picking saladsThat’s why they succeed the most reliable and fastest. Almost every young plant provider has Eichblatt and « Lollo » in red and green in its range, the Greens also come to the harvest a few days earlier.

Picking salad: the uncomplicated classics

« Normal » lettuce is a little more difficult. A head only forms when at the beginning of this process, which is very « exhausting » for the plant, everything is right: looser, slightly moist and nutritious soil, sufficient space and sun. Unfortunately, snails also go more easily to the lettuce.

You prefer only ice salad with its particularly crisp leaf. Because it takes a particularly long time until head formation, it is least suitable for beginners.

For the summer, Romanesa salads are particularly recommended. They are particularly heat festival. You know them as « salad hearts » from the supermarket, they can be harvested from their own garden with a little more turns for the kitchen.

Place, water, light: what is important in planting

It is also difficult for experienced gardeners to give the small seedlings enough space. Distances of 25 to 30 cm are necessary. The bales are only half into the ground. If you do not pour them out with the shower, but with a fine beam out of the watering can, the gaps between the bale and the floor close and the roots then quickly grasp foot. If the bale stands above the floor, there is later a small airspace between the lettuce head and the floor: more ventilation reduces putrefaction. Cutting off the finished head is also easier, which also remains cleaner.

An even greater variety of varieties opens up who attracts young plants themselves. Incidentally, all lettuce relatives have germination over 15 degrees. Anyone who sows out in the living room has a very bad germination result. At least the first two or three days – better but all the time – the cultivation prefers to be cool. As soon as green shows, a lot of light is also necessary.

The fastest manner succeeds in the fastest: Salad is sown in rows such as spinach, also gladly in a colorful variety, and can already harvest after a good five weeks.

To person: Marianne Scheu-Helgert is a trained gardener and headed the Bavarian Garden Academy in Veitshöchheim.