Mulch with well-rotted manure or compost to retain moisture and ensure that they are kept well watered, or they will
run to seed.
When it does eventually
run to seed, the flowering shoots are also edible.
HANGING BASKETS: Try to salvage the healthy plants: HARVEST YOUR VEGETABLES: Don't let them
run to seed: WEEDING: Now's the time to tidy up your borders
Make another sowing of spring cabbage as these plants are far less likely to
run to seed than sowings made last month.
Parsley will come up again in the second year but it won't do as well and tends to
run to seed early.
Water the plants regularly and give them a liquid feed every few weeks, removing yellowing leaves and replacing the plants when they
run to seed.
Don't let them
run to seed or the plant takes that as an indicator that flowering is over and will stop producing more blooms.
I use Mr Fothergill's coriander Cilantro, which was specially bred for its large leaves and slowness to bolt (
run to seed).
LETTUCES are among the easiest salad crops to grow, but if you let them bolt (
run to seed) they will often taste bitter.
The loose leaf varieties such as Red Salad Bowl, Lollo Ross and Bijou are tolerant of hot weather and seem to do better at this time of year than the cabbage head types which can annoyingly
run to seed.
They also quickly
run to seed, known as bolting, if plants get too dry or overcrowded.
What is the problem if the grass is a foot high as long as our wild flowers are allowed to mature and
run to seed to multiply next spring?
Cultivars to search out include Tarzan, ideal for early and late sowings, French Breakfast, with its long root, Scarlet Globe and Cherry Belle with their round roots, Viola, with its purple skin and pure white flesh, Zlata with its yellow skin and Munchen Bier, with its large roots and, if it is allowed to
run to seed, a harvest of edible spicy seed pods.
And if you can let some plants
run to seed it will attract aphid-munching hoverflies.
Unless regularly dead-headed and watered, annuals will
run to seed even more quickly than they naturally do.