Can you eat salad/rocket that has bolted

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Too hot for the poor salad despite lots of watering, can I eat what is there and pull the roots out as I know it won't regrow?

I think you can't eat them - as apparently once bolted, the leaves turn bitter. But you could always try them and see what you think! :-) Won't kill you, just might not taste good.

The main exception to this I'm told is perpetual spinach as that's supposed to be ok, even once bolted.

yes.

I tend to leave a few so it reseeds itself the next year.

thanks yes the perpetual spinach has bolted also but the leaves of the rest of the stuff seems to taste okay - all oriental salad greens so may be different? Don't want them to reseed there as have plans for the beds - sweetcorn/patty pan squash/courgettes next. Next year I will plant the salad earlier outside although I'm so tempted to just grown them in the greenhouse as you get far less crop damage from insects.

But more likely to bolt in the greenhouse, aren't they? Just a thought.

Yes more likely in greenhouse to bolt but will plant some in Feb/March instead although I have some oriental salad mix that hasn't bolted.