gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
3557 Posts
Posted - Jul 19 2010 : 11:19:02 AM
I have a salad table and just went out to get some and it is very bitter. All 4 kinds I have in it. And they are not bitter type lettuces. And not 5 days ago they were fine. What happened any body know?
Lots of things can do that. The amount of water, fertilizer, heat, and some types get that way just before they bolt. Mine went bitter about 2 weeks ago.
Farmgirl Sister #1438
God - Gardening - Family - Is anything else important?
The heat will do it every time. I have some bibb lettuce that was wonderful one day and bitter the next...last week. ugh! I am hating what this heat has done for my salad greens!! Time to start some new seedlings indoors for me.
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
3775 Posts
Posted - Jul 20 2010 : 08:13:00 AM
lettuce and kohl crops like cabbage are cool loving plants. heat triggers them to bolt and flower. save your seed and it will be a stronger variety for your garden. if you used true seeds not hybrids. just a thought happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm farm girl #1014
I agree that it is the heat that makes it bitter... I believe it is referred to as "bolting" We had that happen here on Long Island as well with our record heat we've been having! Laurie- Farmgirl Sister#1403
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away..
Bitter lettuce?
Posted - Jul 19 2010 : 11:19:02 AM
