Topic: Spinach as green manure?

[caroline7758]

Would this work,as I have a lot of seeds and won't use much for eating.

[saddad]

Presuming you mean leaf beet... I'd be concerned about the size of the roots... we compost all the old plants about this time of year...  :-\

[goodlife]

Do you mean using your spare seeds up as a green manure..and why not...as long as you do not let them grow big..or maybe just few to save some more seeds... ;D
..and you can pick few baby leaves before turning it over... ;D ;D

[caroline7758]

Presuming you mean leaf beet...:-\

Don't know! I've got Spinach Orientale, Spinach Bloomsdale Longstanding and the ones that came free  from"Britain on show" which doesn't have a name!

[saddad]

The first two will be true spinach... the third probably leaf beet (Perpetual Spinach)

[calendula]

spinach is one of the good bioabsorbers in as much as it is supposed to absorb nasty elements in the soil such as excess copper but that would mean binning the crop afterwards unless you wanted to put it all back - might be worth checking out its use further