laitue à couper urban cuisine

Cut lettuce: our care tips

Written by: Alba Maione

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Time to read 1 min

If there is one essential for cooking a salad, it's lettuce ! This plant has fed people for millennia. It is found in particular in various mythological stories. In Ancient Egypt, lettuce was associated with fertility and was considered an aphrodisiac. Today, we appreciate it above all for its freshness!

Exposure partial shade
Watering daily
Harvest first harvest between 1 and 2 months after sowing

lettuce to cut urban cuisine

EXPOSURE AND TEMPERATURE

The ideal temperature for your cut lettuce plant is between 20° and 25°. You should avoid exposing it to full sun, it will rather appreciate partial shade.

WATERING

Cut lettuce loves water, so you have to water it every day to satisfy it.

lettuce to cut urban cuisine

GROWING AND HARVEST

The first shoot will emerge after 5 to 7 days and you can harvest your first harvest after 1 or 2 months depending on the plant.

OUR UNPRECEDENTED TRICKS

If you expose your lettuce plant to full sun, you will witness a strange phenomenon: your plant will go to seed. This is why it is necessary to keep the plant in partial shade.

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