Good Lettuce Gone Bad: Bolting and Flowering

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

You planted lettuce seed with visions of harvesting beautiful heads of sweet and tasty heirloom lettuce, but almost overnight the plants began to bolt for the sky and turn bitter… a familiar tale of a gardener’s grief:

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