How to Harvest Seeds from Bolted Lettuce

Bolted lettuce? Collect the seeds! This video will show you how to identify when lettuce has “bolted” or gone to seed, and when to harvest the seeds.

Note: Collecting seeds from hybrid plants will produce one of the parent plants. Collecting heritage seeds will ensure future plants will be the same species as the parent.

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