60 Seconds or Sow: What is Bolting Lettuce/Greens?

60 Seconds or Sow: What is Bolting Lettuce/Greens?

In 60 seconds or so... I describe the process of 'bolting'. Lettuce and other greens are cool weather crops. When the warm temperatures come, lettuce moves from leaf productions to flower and seed production. Very often the flavor of lettuce changes and it becomes bitter. You can tell your crop is beginning to bolt when the center starts growing upwards. It happens pretty quickly when the temperatures change.

Below are healthy spinach leaves that are enjoying the cool weather. They were all picked and enjoyed. In another week or so the 'bolting' process would have started. Lettuces tend to get more bitter but spinach keeps it flavor even when it bolts. 

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