Winter Greens

My spinach is doing well

Looks super! When's the taste test?

Smart Red said:

Looks super! When's the taste test?

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Had some last week. Tastes as good as it did over summer . Perpetual spinach.

Hey!

That's what it is ...

I had this silly problem of not being able to find my perpetual spinach seed in the spring time. Sowed white beet seed, lost track of what I'd done, thought one was t'other! Well, they were much alike .

I have had good luck with perpetual spinach thru the summer months. You give me the idea it would be a good choice for the winter. Yay!

Steve

Keep on keepin' on @digitS', and grow some spinach. I have this and two others in varying sized pots to experiment the over-winter output.

Our average temperature rose above the 20's yesterday so I pulled the low tunnel off the greens in the greenhouse. Bean didn't survive the cold nights before it warmed.

The greens have suffered some from the low light conditions and there was even less light for a few snowy days and continuing.


It isn't quite Winter but some greens came in for stir-fries.

Steve

We are blessed to have mild weather into December.. I still have some greens chugging along inside my unheated GH. Nero Di Toscano, Red Russian Kale and Swiss Chard.. I have four Lemon Grass plants still going strong, although, we had a few nights dip down into the high twenties, so the outer tips of the leaves have turned brown. But, I just cut them off. The herbs, sage, parsley and oregano are doing well, but just like the lemon grass, the parsley was a bit nipped in the leaves. I water the plants once a week. It is hard to believe, but all the greens in my GH are the same ones I started from seed back in February.. They have flourished all summer into fall, and now into December.. I have been cutting the outer leaves and using them, and I even picked some to put in the freezer. They keep developing leaves and the stalks on the Red Russian Kale are huge! These greens are some of my favorites, delish! I will always grow these wonderful workhorse varieties..

Great looking garden produce!

They are wonderful friends to carry into winter, @barefootgardener !

Your Swiss chard is just the thicker stem version of Sprig's perpetual spinach. (I wonder why no nationality has claimed that one ... I mean, there is a "New Zealand" spinach. )

The "Russian" kale was a good choice taste-wise for me . Unfortunately, it also was loved by the aphids that show up!

Workhorses? Yeah, since I can no longer remember the name of the choy sum I bought 20 years ago, I'm thinking of naming the variety "Dobbin."

Steve

And now,


to the skillet!

Steve
who realizes that no one where there are record highs is likely to care