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Gardenaddict Joined: 5/22/2003 Location: Westchester County NY Posts: 42	Posted: Jun/01/2006 1:22 PM PST I am growing bib lettuce for the first time and collards. The bib lettuce is growing fast in zone 5 (north of NYC) as are the collards. When do you pick off the leaves? Also, does it keep growing all summer... some of the lettuce leaves look good enough already to pick off an eat but do I wait until some sort of other growth or maturity? Thanks! GA Quote \| Reply \| Report

piglet Joined: 6/03/2006 Location: Western Algarve - Portugal Posts: 3	Posted: Jun/03/2006 8:15 PM PST Hi...pleae may I add my stupid question about lettuce... I live in Portugal...and a first time garderner in this region. Why do lettuce bolt....ie the middles grow upward?? Quote \| Reply \| Report

trudy Joined: 6/02/2006 Location: SW Georgia Posts: 404	Posted: Jun/03/2006 8:40 PM PST I can't answer much about the lettuce cause here when it starts to get hot it bolts and wants to go to seed, then dies. The collards you can eat most anytime you want to pick. I always leave the inner leaves, only getting the larger outer leaves for cooking. I don't usually mess with collards til after a good frost has gotten to them to sweeten them up which removes the bitterness. A few friends of mine have mentioned that you can trick them in the summer months by picking them and placing them in the freezer to immulate a freeze and it works wonderfully. But I don't know that first hand, only what I've been told. I may try it later on this summer cause my collard plants are a little to happy. trudy Quote \| Reply \| Report

Kristine Joined: 3/12/2006 Location: Niagara Wine Country - Zone 6/7 Posts: 38	Posted: Jun/04/2006 1:13 PM PST I'm pretty sure the lettuce bolts because it doesn't like the heat. It needs cool weather. I had some lettuce in my apartment window and it bolted just from the warmth of the sunshine... and we have air conditioning, so it wasn't all that hot... Quote \| Reply \| Report

Gardenaddict Joined: 5/22/2003 Location: Westchester County NY Posts: 42	Posted: Jun/04/2006 5:45 PM PST What do you mean by bolting? Quote \| Reply \| Report

trudy Joined: 6/02/2006 Location: SW Georgia Posts: 404	Posted: Jun/04/2006 6:49 PM PST The plant will send up a stalk and begin the flower. It thinks its job is done and wants to set seed. It usually dies after seed are mature. trudy Quote \| Reply \| Report

jgardener Joined: 8/12/2005 Location: Posts: 106	Posted: Jun/04/2006 10:26 PM PST Doesn't picking the leaves delay bolting? Quote \| Reply \| Report

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