Description

Head salad, or lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. capitata) is a of the garden salad. It is probably only a subspecies developed very late. By development inhibition of the it forms "head for one "from large, lightgreen sheets. With the bloom the original Blattrosette is dissolved and it develops a with numerous yellow This bloom formation is promoted by long summer days and humid weather. With the head salad this procedure happens very rapidly and therefore also as "shooting "is designated.

Cultivation

Head salad is cultivated in completely Central Europe both in the free one and in greenhouses; in Central Europe it belongs all year round to the most popular sheet salads. The outside, darker sheets are particularly vitaminreich and from easily bitter taste, which taste inside, yellowish moderate, often easily. The originally Italian breed form iceberg salad or ice salad has particularly knackige, brittle sheets with stronger ribs and is the liking test sheet salad in the USA; the Bataviasalat originating from France has dark, nearly reddish and strongly waved sheets.

Head salad contains on the average 95% water, of 1.6% coal hydrates, 1.5% protein, 0.25% fat. Particularly with winter greenhouse culture head salad is frequently strongly nitrate-loaded (up to 3,5 g/kg).

In the kitchen head salad is freshly put on with Marinade, Mayonnaise or cream as salad or used as vegetable. Then the heads are first expressed and peppered, filled and or scorched afterwards depending upon prescription.

General to the cultivation

Neighbour in the Mischkultur

Plants get along with different neighbour, those directly adjacent grow differently well:

Good neighbours

• Bean
• Dill
• Peas
• Strawberry
• Fenchel
• Cucumber
• Kerbel
• Kohl
• Kohlrabi
• Kresse
• Allium
• Corn
• Carrot
• Peppermint
• Radish
• Red one prays
• Schwarzwurzel
• Asparagus
• Tomato
• Zuckerhut
• Chicoree
• Radicchio
• Bulb

Bad neighbours

• Parsley
• Sellerie

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