Grow lettuce for cooling down with vegetarian lettuce and herbs salad good for cancer
Lettuce is cold weather vegetable. It is one of the most commonly grown salad vegetables in America and in the western world and it is now also growing popularity in India and other parts of the world. Although there are many types of lettuce varieties that one can grow, in this blog we are showing Butterhead lettuce.
Lettuce in summer can be had by itself as a vegetarian salad with some good vegetarian proteins like lentils, chickpeas or even other vegetarian beans. It can also be had a side portion with your other meals like with Soups. Some popular vegetarian salads are American caesar salad, american salad bar where you can create your own vegetarian salad with healthy veggies, fruits, nuts and many other delicious things. European salad and mediterranean salads are also very popular which can be enjoyed by vegetarians. It can be used to make good American or European vegetarian subs, this is specially healthy for you and your family's health in summer times.
If you also have a good herb garden, you can make your own salad dressing specially if you are a vegetarian. Herbs like parseley, thyme and oregano are good to reduce cancer risk. Pick your fresh herbs from your garden or herb garden. You can either prepare your own Orange tangy and herbs dressing for a healthy vegetarian summer salad or an olive oil and herbs dressing which can be had all season, both are easy to prepare at home.
Growing lettuce in pots or containers:
You can grow lettuce in containers, pots or even buckets be it a ceramic container or plastic container, choose the right container and right size. Picking good Organic Non-GMO lettuce seeds is the first step, using Organic and Non-GMO is always a better choice, it will provide you with healthier produce. You can fill the container/pot/bucket with good Organic potting mix and the sprinkle the Organic lettuce seeds and put some soil on top to cover the seeds. Water the pot and wait for the seedling to sprout in 7-14 days. In 30-40 days, fresh lettuce leaves will be ready to harvest.
Harvesting lettuce:
Once lettuce leaves are fresh and mature, you can cut them by scissors. As long as you don't uproot the whole lettuce which many people do including the ones that you may be getting in super market, even after harvesting tender lettuce leaves, you can let it grow and fresh lettuce will get produced.
If you and your family like healthy living and regular vegetarian salad eaters, then for continuous production of lettuce, plant them once in 2 weeks in new pots. If you have harvested entire lettuce leaves in single or multiple harvest, you can reuse the same soil by just adding some fertilizer to it and plant new seeds of lettuce in them again.
Some of the common remedies for your lettuce plants in summer:
Most important thing if you want to grow lettuce throughout summer for your salad needs, keep them in a good shady place in your garden or hide them behind other bigger plants. This will make sure it grows well.
You can also use boiled water with coriander seeds, fennel seeds and cummin seeds together and feed them to the plants in summer time, we have seen that it helps beans during the summer time. It is a good remedy for plants in summer time.
Note for Indians or any vegetarians in America or any other places: Although your food options reduce dining outside or eating at home if you are a vegetarian or vegan, check the contents what you buy or what you dine. Be careful with food labels and check before you buy or dine. Even some vegetarian food items can contain fish or some animal content in it. Please be sure to check it.
Lettuce in pot
