Harvesting lettuce

[vette-kid]

So we grew some Romain this year. Seems to grow into well here, but I've never grown Romain before. It never did heart line what you but in the store and I was afraid it had gone bad. My wife had salad for lunch and said it was good, so I guess it's ok. When should this be harvested? Sooner? Let it go a bit? Seems to me they are about to bolt. And some did give a good amount of the milky fluid, which I understand is normal?

 

[DirtMechanic]

I like that you grew it. Not a salad guy myself though I know I should be. Spinach? Yeah thats me..

 

[vette-kid]

I tried spinach, but it didn't go so well this year. Timing isn't my thing. I really need to get a farmers almanac or something

 

[DirtMechanic]

I tried spinach, but it didn't go so well this year. Timing isn't my thing. I really need to get a farmers almanac or something

Lord hep me I signed up to their website. Basically you get customized planting date emails that tell you how behind schedule you really are!

 

[Meadowlark]

....Seems to me they are about to bolt. And some did give a good amount of the milky fluid, which I understand is normal?

In my experience, that milky fluid presence is indicative of pending bolting and bitterness in the leaves.

 

[karstopography]

Looking at the photo, that Romaine is on the path to bolting and should come out ASAP. I grew butter crunch and red sails lettuce over the winter and took mine out in towards the end of March. The red sails could have gone on longer, but the butter crunch (not all that different from Romaine) looked a lot like yours in the photo. Fighting a diminishing returns and declining quality battle at this point.

 

[vette-kid]

Yeah, I just pulled a few more. Not sure we could use the rest before it goes bad anyway. But I'll probably pull it this weekend.