SPINACH
WHOLESOME TO EAT. There are two kinds of spinach, one with round leaves, which is usually sown for summer crops, and a prickly seeded for winter, but there are varieties of the round seeded type, which are hardy enough to stand through the winter. Spinach is one of the most wholesome of vegetables and as it matures quickly it is usually sown as a catch crop among peas or beans. Tho seeds are sown thinly and the seedlings thinned out to three to six inches apart. As the plants soon run to seed, to maintain supplies, sowings should be made at fortnightly intervals during spring, summer and autumn. During very hot weather the New Zealand spinach can be grown and for winter and early spring tho spinach beet or silver beet can be grov/n. This is a hardy and accommodating plant, which if sown about the end of the month, will produce lots of leaves and loaf stalks for the winter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1939, Page 3
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