Husk charcoal will be needed to keep your soil loose and your lettuce roots intact when they’re pulled out. Manure fertilizer is useful in providing additional nutrients. Make sure to use ripe manure fertilizer to avoid growth of unwanted microorganisms. Mix manure fertilizer, soil, and husk charcoal with 1 to 1 to 1 ratio. Your seedbed should be in the open area and away from animals that might disturb it. Prepare your seedbed that is 1 meter in width and 15 cm in height, with length as needed. In this article, we’ll see about sowing on seedbeds. There are some suitable sowing medias for lettuce farming like polybags, banana leaves, tray system, or molded soil, or seedbeds. How to Farm Organic Curly Lettuce (KPPI). For optimum result, it’s better to sow your seeds first before your plant them on the ground directly.
You will need 250 gram of seeds per hectare. If you buy your seeds from the shop, the most popular varieties these days are the penn great lakes, imperial, and new York. You get the seeds from previous harvest after your lettuce crop has produced fruits that are old enough, and get the seeds out. Lettuce reproduces generatively with seeds. However, curly lettuce will grow anyway in low nutrient soil if you plan your watering and organic fertilization correctly. The preferred soil types are dusty clay, sandy clay, and humus-filled soil. Curly lettuce can even grow well in hot and lowland like Jakarta.īasically, the optimum temperature for curly lettuce farming is around 15-25 degree celcius on 900-1200 meter above sea level land. Curly lettuce is quite tolerant to be planted in tropical or even hotter area. Between those two options, the most popular in Indonesia is the leafy, curly ones or as we’ll call it here, curly lettuce.
There are two big groups of lettuce ( Lactuca Sativa) farming in Indonesia: leafy lettuce with rounded loose head with green flaring leaves and heading lettuce with rounded or oval packed solid head.
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