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mtp
Jun 18th, 2010

Time to Pull Up The Spinach

The Spinach has had it. I knew it would happen. It was one of the first things I sowed in early Spring and has been happily producing these past few months. But Spinach doesn’t last forever. It’s one of those cool weather plants that really just gives up when the weather heats up.

It’s started to go to seed so I harvested everything that was left, pulled up the plants and put them in the compost bin. I’ll leave it a few months until I sow some more.

Never one to leave the earth bare, I have already sown some Swede in place of the Spinach :)

mtp
Mar 30th, 2009

Over-wintered Kale & Spinach

Just a quickie to share with you my harvest this evening. I’m really loving these light evenings now and spent a good half hour pottering around the garden tonight. In my basket went some Kale and some New Zealand Spinach.

Both crops have been growing over winter and have sprung back into life over the last few weeks to enable me to bring in a super-early harvest. I treated the Spinach with some plant food last week and it’s come up more lush and green than ever. Very worthwhile.

Tonight, these are accompanying my Sausage and Cherry Tomato bake (Jamie again) with an nice glass of white Chenin Blanc – well it is Monday after all!

I love good food!

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