What is this and has it bolted?

[dgunner]

Can't remember what this was (must label next time) but it's grown tall and has these flowers. Is it a lettuce?



and what about this fine fellow? - I know this one IS a lettuce of some sort but again it's starting to flower!

[zazen999]

The photos aren't the best - but I'll give it my best shot

Top one - is it a Pak Choi?

Bottom one - Mizuna or a brassica that is grown as a salad....the flowers look mizuna-ish.

Do you still have the seed packets that you sowed them from?

[SarzWix]

Yeah, I agree, the white stalk/veining on the leaf of the top one looks like pak choi. I haven't a clue on the second one though, sorry.

[dgunner]

Ok - lets say the top one is Pak Choi -my seed packets just say 'spicy leaf mix'

Should I leave it as it is then?

What about the other one - lots of big leaves - do I pinch them off or cut the stem at the base?

[HayleyB]

I've let my spicy leaves flower to attract pollinators cause I've now got lollo rossas and salad bowls for salad. I generally grow the spicys in winter indoors. My pak choi and red mustard and mizuna are yellow and white flowered.

[Two_Sheds]

Spicy salad mix tends to be oriental veg ... best grown in cool weather, or it tends to bolt. I've got mine in a shady spot, but the pak choi still bolted straight away.

sow little and often (every 3 weeks) for a continual supply.

[vicky]

The flowers are nice and spicy in salads

[Flummery]

They look like they are in pots or a seed tray. If so, I would tend to cut them small and let them re-grow - you'll get several cuts from them like this. Otherwise I plant them out into the soil. I think they need more space to get big. I've grown these spicy salad mixes in the ground and got some lovely hot mustard leaves etc. - very nice!

[HayleyB]

Vicky tried the flowers after reading your post but a bit to mwaeek for me.

I like spicy leaves but although the area they are in are very sheltered they did bolt very quickly, but it looks pretty and I have all the other stuff to munch now