NEW ZEALAND SPINACH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1940, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND SPINACH

SHOULD BE IN EVERY GARDEN. For, the home vegetable patch New Zealand spinach is one of the most desirable of vegetables, combining all good qualities and having riot a single bad one. It is slow to germinate, and therefore the time to sow it is in early spring. Then sow it thickly in a patch say, 3ft square. The plants will come up good and strong. Transplant them when of suitable size to a bed not less than 3ft wide, say, in two rows 6in apart and alternatively, say, lOin apart in the rows. They send out long vines, resting on the ground fully 3ft and over. Pick the leaves oft’ separately, boil and season to taste. From late December until a killing frost comes one can have a constant supply of this delicious vegetable. It is equally as healthful as the common spinach, and grown in much greater ease, practically no care at all being needed except a little weeding about the roots. It is a rampant grower, not subject to disease or insect attacks. Just pick the leaves and let the vines grow. The seeds can be sown now. Soak seeds for twenty-four hours and sow in a hot, dry position.