Growing lettuce is one of the easiest vegetables to grow.
Provide well drained soil, plenty of water and sunshine and you
will be rewarded with delicious leaves for the perfect salad.
One of th... Read More e problems with lettuce is that is
flowers or bolts. This is a naturally occurring phenomena that
is necessary for the plant to make seeds. The result of bolting
is that the lettuce turns bitter. It becomes bitter very
quickly. Lettuce that is bolting begins to elongate and grow
rapidly vertical. You can identify this process by slicing open
a head or plant of lettuce and noting if the growing crown in
the center is taking on a cone shape. If it is, the lettuce is
bolting and will soon turn bitter. Harvest your plants and put
in some new ones. I like to plant new seeds every three weeks
throughout the summer in order to have a continuous harvest
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