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Monty Don deals with bolting lettuce and chard

How to deal with bolting vegetables

In this video, Monty Don shows you how to recognise and deal with bolting vegetable crops.

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Monty identifies bolting lettuce and chard in the veg plot, demonstrates how to spot bolting and how this affects the flavour of the crop, and then explains different methods of dealing with them.

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