Growing Lettuce:Bolting

July 05, 2008

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 the problems with lettuce is that is flowers or bolts. This is a naturally occurring phenomenathat is necessary for the plant to make seeds.The result of bolting is that the lettuce turns bi...