08 July 2010

Hey! I read about this online!

I read about this online...and it's not good!

My lettuce had been so weird. I couldn't figure out what was going on. It was iceberg lettuce but it never formed heads. And, it was really tall, like 3 feet tall. I tried reading up on it and I learned about flowering and bolting. I believe this is what that looks like:

Bad, bad, bad. So, I yanked my lettuce today. From my research, I'd say it was due to heat and overcrowding. There's some advice out there about growing leaf lettuce in the summertime so I might go that route. Since I got rid of the peas and the lettuce, I have three empty squares. Now I have to figure out what to do with them.