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Vegetable gardeners often talk about their plants “bolting,” which simply means that the plant sends up a flower stalk and goes to seed. Bolting is common in cool-season greens, like arugula, lettuce and spinach.Click to see full answer. Keeping this in view, what happens when Lettuce bolts? Why Lettuce Has Flowers Cool season annual vegetables, such as spinach and lettuce, bolt when chilly spring days turn into warm spring days. Bolting lettuce plants become bitter and sharp in taste as they shoot towards the sky. Lettuce bolt will occur when daytime temperatures go above 75 F. (24 C.)One may also ask, how do you keep lettuce from bolting? To prevent bolting, planting leafy lettuces in the spring and continually harvesting (cutting them back) during the year will likely prevent bolting and provide lettuce leaves for most of the summer. For head lettuce, such as iceberg, consider planting them as a fall crop so they mature as the weather is cooling. Considering this, can you eat lettuce after it bolts? Bolted lettuce can still be harvested and eaten, although the leaves will taste unpalatable and bitter if they are left on the plant too long, so it is best to pick the leaves as soon as possible after bolting and remove the plant entirely once all the edible leaves are removed.What does lettuce look like when it goes to seed?Small, tender lettuce leaves are pretty to look at and delicious to eat, but when the plant goes to seed, it looks gangly and unattractive as it bolts (sends up a flower stalk to produce seeds). The blooms resemble small dandelions and the plant gets quite tall as if it’s reaching for the sun.

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