Purple leaf lettuce planting techniques and tips

Purple leaf lettuce is a special variety of lettuce, named after its purple leaves. It is a species of upright lettuce, which can be eaten raw or fried. It has high nutritional value and excellent health benefits. It has a large market demand and high economic value. Many people want to grow purple leaf lettuce, but they don’t understand the planting techniques of purple leaf lettuce and don’t know how to plant it. Today I will write down the professional techniques of growing purple leaf lettuce and tell you. Friends who want to grow purple leaf lettuce, come and learn.

Planting technology of purple leaf lettuce

1. Purple leaf lettuce's environmental requirements

Purple leaf lettuce does not have high requirements for the living environment. It likes to grow in an environment of about 22 degrees and moist conditions. It has poor drought tolerance. It also has certain requirements for fertilizers during the growth period. It needs sufficient nitrogen fertilizer, potassium fertilizer and phosphorus fertilizer. There must also be sufficient organic matter in the soil for growing purple leaf lettuce.

2. Cultivation and planting of purple leaf lettuce

When planting purple lettuce, you need to go through seedling cultivation before you can plant it. For seedling cultivation, soak the purple lettuce seeds in warm water, then take them for germination. After the seeds sprout, they can be planted in the seedbed. When the seedlings grow three leaves, they can be transplanted. Before transplanting, three thousand kilograms of organic fertilizer should be applied per acre, and the land should be leveled. After planting, the purple lettuce should be watered in time.

3. Management of purple leaf lettuce

Purple leaf lettuce has high requirements for water during its growth period. Excessive watering can also cause the soil to dry out. People can control it according to weather changes. In addition, purple leaf lettuce needs to be topdressed once during its growth period. One hundred kilograms of chicken manure can be applied per mu of land, and then twenty kilograms of compound fertilizer can be applied. Aphids sometimes appear during the growth period of purple leaf lettuce. It is necessary to spray pesticides in time to remove them, otherwise the grown lettuce leaves will have a large number of insect bite holes, affecting the quality of purple leaf lettuce.