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Can you eat the leaves of lettuce that has bolted?
I had lovely lettuce growing in my garden - then we went away on vacation :( Now that I come home, they have all bolted, instead of heads of lettuce, I now have stalks of lettuce, but complete with lovely looking green leaves, still no flowers. Question is - can you still pick the leaves off the "stalks" and eat them? Somebody told me they are either very bitter, or even poisonous, at this stage. Is that true? Does anybody know?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
They are edible but not very pleasing!
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
I have eaten them and they are fine right after they have bolted. I would not continue to eat them though. It also depend on the type of lettuce. My head lettuce tasted fine afgte it bolted. Also might mention now is the time to plant lettuce again for fall harvest at the end of Sept. I just planted mine.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yeah I have them in my yard too, they have yellow flowers, you should just wait until you can collect the seeds, the taste is pretty bad, like how lady bugs smell.
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