What's going on,

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What's going to?

What's going to?

What's going on everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening. I'm hanging out in my

front yard right now. I'm looking at my lettuce and I have not harvested it

as often as I should so it's looking like a giant tower

and you might be saying well I thought lettuce kind of grows low to the ground and it does

but like lettuce and like many other plants it wants to propagate itself it

wants to spread its seed and that's what it's doing right now it's doing something

called bolting now you might say how do I prevent my lettuce from bolting and you kind of can't I mean that's just what it wants to do from a genetic perspective

all plants want to propagate themselves and this is how lettuce does it. It throws up a seed stock

and eventually those seeds get spread around by the wind or by birds or whatever animals eating them,

they just start to grow again. Now as a gardener you want to prolong the period where you're

getting those fresh tender crisp and delicious leaves so how do you do that?

Well lettuce really responds to two major variables when it comes to bolting, and it seems like

heat is one of them, certainly it's one of them, but the surprising factor is that actually

the length of the day is another. So what's happening here is that's signaling to us that lettuce in general is a spring fall early winter late winter type of crop and not so much a pure summer crop.

Now I definitely notice that here in my garden because as I've just mentioned, we're not even

quite at official summer in my lettuce is already bolting.

Then again it's been in the ground for a while.

So if you want to prevent your lettuce from bolting, there are a couple different things you can do.

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