I’m tired of spending $4-$5 per bag for baby spinach, but I love a few leaves in a salad as it peps up the salad nicely…we are big eaters of salad, even the boyz will eat their 2 cupsful of a night plus what I lavish on their sandwiches for lunch…

My question is, do you continually pick baby spinach like you can Cos lettuce, or do you have to resow, again and again???

Also what is a good brand of seed for baby spinach?

Yankee site that has good info on baby spinach

Helpful site on growing spinache in Oz

I would appreciate some anecedotal information from the locals (youse Forum Folk) as well please…just to round out the information and fill in some blanks…

Dinetta said:

Helpful site on growing spinache in Oz

I would appreciate some anecedotal information from the locals (youse Forum Folk) as well please…just to round out the information and fill in some blanks…

Not from me. I don’t like the stuff.

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my impression is that you can pick as you go, but I tend to grow spinach for cooking, not salads.

You know the sort I mean, tho’, don’t you BlueGreen?

Those little round leaves on stalks?

Dinetta said:

You know the sort I mean, tho’, don’t you BlueGreen?

Those little round leaves on stalks?

baby spinach.. yes. Just have to pick them when small and often. The leaves can get quite large but still fine to use.

Dinetta said:

You know the sort I mean, tho’, don’t you BlueGreen?

Those little round leaves on stalks?

AFAIK they are the immature leaves of English spinach or the like.

Dinetta said:

I’m tired of spending $4-$5 per bag for baby spinach, but I love a few leaves in a salad as it peps up the salad nicely…we are big eaters of salad, even the boyz will eat their 2 cupsful of a night plus what I lavish on their sandwiches for lunch…

My question is, do you continually pick baby spinach like you can Cos lettuce, or do you have to resow, again and again???

Also what is a good brand of seed for baby spinach?

Personally, i use pak choy. It grows in 6 weeks and self seeds.

Longy said:

Dinetta said:

I’m tired of spending $4-$5 per bag for baby spinach, but I love a few leaves in a salad as it peps up the salad nicely…we are big eaters of salad, even the boyz will eat their 2 cupsful of a night plus what I lavish on their sandwiches for lunch…

My question is, do you continually pick baby spinach like you can Cos lettuce, or do you have to resow, again and again???

Also what is a good brand of seed for baby spinach?

Personally, i use pak choy. It grows in 6 weeks and self seeds.

In the salads???

Personally, i use pak choy. It grows in 6 weeks and self seeds.

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In the salads???
XXXXX
Hmm. MAybe not.
Can’t get spinach to grow in the heat.
It likes cool weather.

Longy said:

Personally, i use pak choy. It grows in 6 weeks and self seeds.

XXXX

In the salads???
XXXXX
Hmm. MAybe not.
Can’t get spinach to grow in the heat.
It likes cool weather.

Darn…oh well, at least I can grow rocket and cos and stuff, during the summer, underneath the jacaranda…

Dinetta said:

Longy said:

Personally, i use pak choy. It grows in 6 weeks and self seeds.

XXXX

In the salads???
XXXXX
Hmm. MAybe not.
Can’t get spinach to grow in the heat.
It likes cool weather.

Darn…oh well, at least I can grow rocket and cos and stuff, during the summer, underneath the jacaranda…

Yeah and pak choy. Thinkin about it, i reckon the young leaves would be fine in salad.
I often just rip a few off and eat ‘em in the garden. Stalks and all. SO delicious that vege.
Maybe tear into strips in a salad and toss.

There exist a number of species and varieties that get the name spinach.
Almost all can be continualy harvested. I have various beets and chards as well as the english spinach and even warrigal greens along with my lettuce and bok choi etc. There is one in a yates pkt known as perennial spinach but If you keep harvesting them most of them even beetroot will happily allow you to havest leaves.

roughbarked said:

There exist a number of species and varieties that get the name spinach.
Almost all can be continualy harvested. I have various beets and chards as well as the english spinach and even warrigal greens along with my lettuce and bok choi etc. There is one in a yates pkt known as perennial spinach but If you keep harvesting them most of them even beetroot will happily allow you to havest leaves.

And they all taste delicious. Most people throw away leaves of beets and turnips etc but they’re too good for mongrel chooks and compost bins.

roughbarked said:

There exist a number of species and varieties that get the name spinach.
Almost all can be continualy harvested. I have various beets and chards as well as the english spinach and even warrigal greens along with my lettuce and bok choi etc. There is one in a yates pkt known as perennial spinach but If you keep harvesting them most of them even beetroot will happily allow you to havest leaves.

Thanks RoughBarked…every little bit of info helps…

I sometimes wonder what the leaves are in some of those salad packs that you can buy from WW and Coles..beetroot is about all I recognize…I remember when the salad mixes first burst on the scene about …what? 18 years ago now? and they were a taste sensation and included flower petals…but I think the locals were resistant to the new idea at the time and so they disappeared after 12 months…to resurrect themselves in cellophane bags in the last couple of years…

beetroot and small leaf spinach etc can be grown in poly boxes and snipped with scissors like lettuce if you like. Only problem would be to not overdo the snipping in hot weather. Boxes can be moved to shadier places in summer.

I treat them all including broccoli as perennials. If you keep nibbling at them with a mind to both keeping them alive and you getting something to eat, they’ll live for years. Sure some will go to seed. THis can both be limited and or cut off. I allow this plant or that to make seed.. My garden is never short of a feed of greens but then my parsley patches are bigger than many peoples backyard.

roughbarked said:

beetroot and small leaf spinach etc can be grown in poly boxes and snipped with scissors like lettuce if you like. Only problem would be to not overdo the snipping in hot weather. Boxes can be moved to shadier places in summer.

I treat them all including broccoli as perennials. If you keep nibbling at them with a mind to both keeping them alive and you getting something to eat, they’ll live for years. Sure some will go to seed. THis can both be limited and or cut off. I allow this plant or that to make seed.. My garden is never short of a feed of greens but then my parsley patches are bigger than many peoples backyard.

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