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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: prakash_mib on March 27, 2011, 18:39

Title: perpetual spinach - spinach beet
Post by: prakash_mib on March 27, 2011, 18:39
Is this the one which comes year after year?
the packet says that we can harvest untill october.
I am confused  ???
Title: Re: perpetual spinach - spinach beet
Post by: 8doubles on March 27, 2011, 18:51
Easy to grow and does not normally bolt in the first year like true spinach does.
When it does go to flower it can be 2m high and 1.5m wide so it tends to get replaced before it sets seed.
Worth growing for the kitchen or pet food.
Title: Re: perpetual spinach - spinach beet
Post by: viettaclark on March 27, 2011, 22:25
Planted mine last spring and it cropped through the winter and is going really strong now. Some thicker flower stalks but I cut them out (and eat them). Will plant some more when they get scrappy.