well..is it spinach?

[kitty]

it my tear-a****g hurry hurtling round wilkos i picked up what i thought was spinach,which i love but have never grown before-only when i got home i saw it says 'spinach beet'-a good substitute for spinach'...is it not spinach then?i want the stuff popeye eats! ???

[kitty]

[Merry Tiller]

It's perpetual spinach, very similar but the leaves are a bit more chewy

[johcharly]

It is the one I usually grow -it doesn't bolt, lasts about a year, I get about three pickings a week from a 20 foot row, the flavour is a little bit more earthy than true spinach but I just take the leaves when very small.

[kitty]

right!
thanks for that-i dont mind it being  bit chewy-makes you concentrate on the taste a bit more!
kitty ;D

[Mrs Ava]

Yay! That is what I grow as it doesn't seem to bolt and grows on and on and on _{and on and on and on.......}

[Doris_Pinks]

Still picking my last years!

[Charlotte Sometimes]

Am thinking of trying Spinach Beet myself next year, as Spinach "proper" seems to be a bit of a devil to grow (bolting as the others have mentioned).  That's further than I've ever got, because it just won't germinate for me!!!

So perhaps your error was a lucky one.  ;)

[wivvles]

Yay! That is what I grow as it doesn't seem to bolt and grows on and on and on _{and on and on and on.......}

..and on and on and on and on..

[kitty]

so...what youre saying .....is..
spinach is like poverty-always with us! ;D
o well.....if theres nothing else to nosh we can have spinach pie...spinach quiche.....spinach soup......spoinach stew.....spinach sandwiches...spin...........

[johcharly]

Sounds like you've been looking at the menu in our house kitty. ;D.

[kitty]

just repeat after me.spinach is good for you,,,spinach is good for you... ;D

[ina]

Kitty, what you have may be Swiss chard. The Dutch name for Swiss chard is 'snijbiet' which means cut beet, you can cut it and it grows again. Really good stuff.

[Hot_Potato]

I can vouch for it too Kitty - been picking mine for almost a year - it's just started to bolt a bit as I've been away for almost a month (not a holiday but a bereavement - just lost my dear Mum) so not been able to pick it recently but picked loads yesterday and still more young leaves coming on.....I'm so reluctant to dig it up.

I like it so much had it with scrambled eggs on toast tonight - they went well together  :P

Have got a new packet of seed to sow a.s.a.p.  :) -  H.P.

[kitty]

sorry about your mum hp :(


well..it looks like the general consecus is that whatever i've got its nutricious and tasty so i shall be ok i think! :)
i had a look at 'reall spinach'again in wilkos,when i wentyesterday-it looks a bit small and cress like-i like the look of what i've got!