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How perpetual is it? I planted it last year and got soooo fed up of eating spinach!!! It was left over the winter and when i went today it still appeared to be alive. Some of the old leaves were a bit slimy so i pulled all those off but will it grow again or should I dig it up and start over?
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It'l keep growing - and then it'll seed all over! Mine did anyway!Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Loves Spinach. How big does it grow?If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing to excess
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This thread has decided me to sow some!Mad Old Bat With Attitude.
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I use perpetual spinach - boy does it keep coming
It grows as big as you let it, I keep 'cutting and coming' again and againaka
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Perpetual Spinach and Silver Chard - two of my favourite crops - both to eat and because I can crop them over and over and over and over and over and over etc etc etc etc .
Both of these crops are still growing in my tunnel - they were both sown in March last year and planted into final position in April - I'll do the same again this year, but will keep last years going until this season's plants are ready for their first cut.
I supply between 40 and 50 boxes per week, attend local farmers markets (17 per year) and several other events, and have customers calling at the farm gate for about 5 months of the year and I plan on growing about 50 plants of each which will keep me going throughout the year.Rat
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For some reason mine didnt do very well and I ended up pulling it up will try again this yearGardening ..... begins with daybreak
and ends with backache
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It feels quite funny all frozen and covered in snow, but then thaws out and keeps going! bless it... and now my chooks like it too.....*wonders if that will be it's demise as nothing else has killed it yet!Never test the depth of the water with both feet
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Perpetual spinach aka leafbeet is a biennial. Don't expect it to go on forever, although you'll have free plants if you let it go to seedAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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I had it popping up all over my old allotment from a single sowing. If son-of-chard comes where you don't want it, just move them all to a bed of their own. Great crop.Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Reply to Heated mat for Tom's and chilliesI use a mix of six scoops of compost three scoops of sand/grit and two scoops of perlite,the quantity is unimportant as long as the ratio is the same, if for seeds I use this mix, if I am potting on I add some blood, fish and bone, along with a small quantity of chicken manure pellets
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