Bolting information on various lettuces
 

Since some of our lettuce is starting to (or has already) bolt(ed), I thought I would take some notes on which varieties go down early and which hang in there better - could be useful for people to use as a guide towards which varieties to plant to extend the season.

My record keeping wasn't too good on dates, but I think that these went into the garden in mid-late March.

Cherokee - slight bolt, still fine - red crisphead
Magenta - hardly any bolt - red crisphead
SSE Lettuce Mixture - red oakleaf and green head - both still fine
St. Anne's Slow Bolting - green cos type - looks good
Yugoslavian Red - one foot tall, bolting fast - red cos
Forellenschluss - didn't come up
Laitue Grosse Brune Paresseuse -red/green buttercrunch - slight bolt, still OK
Flame - starting to bolt - red.green leaf
Chinese Sword Leaf - just a slight bolt, still OK - green sword leaf
Red Lepracaun - red cos - bolted already, pulled
Webb's Wonderful - green leaf or cos - looking fairly good, only slight bolt
Sonata - looks good - green buttercrunch
Italianischer - fairly good, only slight bolt - green long leaf
Landis Winter - fairly good, still OK, green buttercrunch
Brown Dutch Winter - mostly green cos type, looks OK
Dalgali - green leaf, pulled fairly early, bolts quickly
Venezianer - green leaf, pulled fairly early, bolts quickly
Lattaghino Riccio Lollo - red/green leaf type, bolted early, pulled
Bolzano - green frizzy leaf, still edible but starting to bolt
Dapple - red/green leaf, still looking good
Krolowa Majowych - green buttercrunch - looks fine
Speckled -starting to bolt a bit, red/green speckled cos, still OK
Mottistone - deeply speckled crisp, still looking fine
Teide - red/green crisp, still looking fine
BlackJack - slightly bolting but still good, deep red leaf

Note that Cherokee, Magenta, Teide, Black Jack and Mottistone are all newer JSS varieties that are just wonderful! The others are heirloom types my friend Jeff generously shared with me.