For early culture sow spring salad garden between August 20 to September 10. For crops in late spring, early summer, lettuce is sown in February-March. For autumn sowing culture is in early August. Sowing is done in layers of 1-1.5 m which is 5-6 rows of lettuce grown at 20-25 cm distance, at a depth of 1.5-2 cm and 2-3 cm in spring and autumn. 1000 square meters are necessary to seed 200-300 gr. Protect the salad from early frost with foil tunnels. Grown through seedlings the , lettuce grows bigger. It have to be sowed in mid March,in semi warm seedbeds or in a solar. When the seedlings have 5-6 leaves should be planted in the garden. Distance of planting seedlings is 20 cm between rows and 15 cm at a time. After planting the seedlings wet them.
Care
If the sowing was made during autumn is good to settle a layer of dried leaves straw or manure to 
protect the culture from the winter frost. The culture should be weed out in the spring. Harvesting lettuce starts in April and continues into May and June, depending on the type of culture.
Benefits
Garden green salad (lettuce) is present almost all year, because it can be grown in greenhouses, but it is one of the first vegetables that appear in spring and which by its content, can replace heavy and lacking in vitamins nutrition during the winter.
Scientific name Lactic sativa, lettuce stimulates appetite, reinvigorates and cleanse the body of accumulated toxins. It also contributed to fighting the deficit of hemoglobin and mineral salts from the body. Wealth of mineral salts .Besides carbohydrates (sugars) salad contains many mineral salts, essential in metabolic incentives: salts of calcium, phosphorus, iodine, iron, copper, arsenic, and that vitamins, especially vitamin C, then A, B, D and E. Besides these substances, lettuce contains estrogen hormones component, with aphrodisiac effect (increase sexual appetite ). Because of vitamin C lettuce increases resistance to infection and viruses and fight anemia.
Abundant content of mucilage has a special role in regulating digestion and bowel, which are interested in those who suffer from constipation, as a laxative. Other beneficial effects of lettuce are hypoglycemic one , the drainage of the liver, diuretic, with indication in edema, the appearance of a normal menstrual cycle. Salad is also indicated for some disorders of the heart area, such as tachycardia and cardiac neuroses, etc.. Because of some substances high in hormones substances with, lettuce is a natural sedative – consumed in the evening help to reduce daily stress – and, moreover, has the capacity to induce physiological sleep.