lettuce

I hope salad-type vegetables can be eaten immediately. (^ ◇ ^)
Speaking of classic, lettuce after all!
So I tried to challenge the lettuce kitchen garden.

First, let's look at lettuce, lettuce has a long history.
A picture is drawn on an Egyptian grave ... (What do you look up from history! W)

A quick look at the ecology and cultivation method of lettuce.

I understand that watering and topdressing are important, and that there are continuous cropping problems.

Because it is a veranda farm with no space, let's think that lettuce is also hydroponically grown.

First, sowing seeds

Daiso (One Dollar shop) buys two 100 yen lettuce seeds (/・ω・)/

Plastic bottle hydroponic plant (> > Learn more about how to make it )

Wrap three seeds on without covering them with soil.

( Note: lettuce is a good-looking seed, so if you plant it too deep, it will grow and then you will get sick, so you plant it shallowly )

* If you don't germinate, put moist kitchen paper on the tapper, place seeds on it and seal And put it in the vegetable room of the refrigerator to increase the germination rate.

Seeding of lettuce started on March 20, 2017.

The average temperature in March was 8.5 ℃ in Tokyo.
(The optimal temperature for lettuce germination is 10 ~ 20 ℃) ​​

After 12 days, all 3 seeds have sprouted! (^ ◇ ^)

* When growing in Otsuka House (OAT House), use 2000 times concentrated solution from germination to harvest.

After 19 days, the leaves have become 4 or 5, so I selected only one.

Grow this guy up!

Ah, the middle seed has only two leaves ...

Is it okay, was it too early to select? (;´･ω･) (I'm a little worried.)

26 days later

It was good ... (^ ◇ ^)

Apparently they are growing well.

Thirty-three days later, in late April, the temperature was getting warmer. (About 15 degrees?)

Let's lettuce seems to be growing smoothly.