These types will bolt quickly when hot weather arrives. Whereas buttercrunch, romaine, red sails, and ruby tolerate high temperatures much better and are slow to bolt. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Twitter. Visit my Amazon store to find all my favorite gardening, homesteading tools, and gadgets plus all of my printed garden books and journals! Kim Mills is a homeschooling mom of 6 and lives on an urban homestead in Ontario, Canada. Blogging at Homestead Acres she enjoys sharing tips to help you save money, grow and preserve your own food.
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Rinse loose lettuce leaves thoroughly under cold running water. Immediately place the head of lettuce in the crisper. Do not store with fruits, which can spoil the lettuce. Remove the leaf lettuce from the crisper after 48 hours.
Rinse the lettuce again in cold water. Most of the bitterness should be gone. Remove the outer leaves. For more information on how to grow lettuce read our earlier post. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon. Tags: leafy green lettuce RP. Hi there! From my hands-on experience, I have learned what works and what doesn't. Here I share everything I have learned. October 24, August 3, Gardening ABC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.
Gardening ABC also participates in other affiliate programs and advertisement programs. Gardening ABC is compensated for referring traffic and business to these companies. Skip to content Lettuce. Do Bananas Have Seeds? Read All About Banana Seeds. I frequently leave bitter lettuce in water overnight.
Once your lettuce has soaked, drain it into a colander or your salad spinner. Rinse it with fresh water, then pat dry or spin. After years of junky, frustrating salad spinners, I finally purchased an OXO salad spinner and it makes a world of difference.
Lettuce tip: You can perk up wilted lettuce by soaking it in a bowl of cold water. You can even add ice to chill the water more quickly.
Cooking frequently mellows out greens it makes arugula less bitter and radish less spicy, for example. You can also make lettuce soup or even stir fried lettuce. If cooking with lettuce sounds unappealing to you, you can use its stronger flavor to your advantage and make lettuce pesto.
No gardener wants their homegrown produce to go to waste! You can also feed it to a worm bin or place it in a bokashi bin. If you have chickens, ducks, geese, or pigs or know someone who does , they may be happy to eat your unwanted lettuce. Guinea pigs and rabbits might eat it, depending on how picky they are. I used to have a guinea pig and she was pretty discerning when it came to her veggies. Although many gardeners rip out and compost lettuce plants once they bolt, you can let your lettuce flower.
Lettuce seed is easy to harvest but it does take a surprisingly long time to mature. Bolted lettuce can also be used as a trap crop for common garden pests like slugs, snails, and aphids. Lettuce has cute little flowers that add cheer to your garden. But before you can figure out how to avoid the situation entirely, you need to know what causes lettuce to become bitter. There are several commonly-accepted causes of bitter lettuce. Hot weather and bolting going to seed are often given as reasons for bitter lettuce.
These things do cause bitter lettuce, but the root cause of bitter lettuce is lettuce sap. Have you ever noticed a milky white substance being secreted by your plant when you harvest? This is lettuce sap. Lettuce sap increases when a plant is preparing to bolt.
If you are attentive and harvest your lettuce frequently by removing outer, larger leaves, you can notice when your plant starts producing more sap. This is your cue to fully harvest the rest of the lettuce plant before it turns overly bitter. For the photo below, I cut a forming flower head off a lettuce plant so you could see the sap. All lettuce will eventually go to seed, but certain situations make it bolt more quickly.
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