Oriental leaves and bolting.

[Feral007]

I suppose if you're really organised and never miss cutting the young leaves it would be ok. I find that when I get busy and miss a day or two that they get out of hand and go to seed. So I sow other ones that are less likely to bolt at that time.

We had the same issue here with Chard and Spinach. Everyone's spinach just bolted in 2 days. But the chard was good. So spinach in winter here, and chard in summer. I prefer to try and make the garden more seasonally happy, rather than try to keep on top of things that are harder to manage.
Just my way.

[chickbob]

Actually,if you look realseeds website, under oriental greens, description for most varieties says 'spring'OR midsummer and a few so fast growing, can be sown all year round i.e Komtsuma and others are good examples of orientals great all year round for cut and come again.