N.Z. spinach – a useful vegetable

Press, 15 September 1976, Page 12

N.Z. spinach - a useful vegetable

New Zealand spinach is one of our most useful vegetables. It has a rapid growth rate—much quicker than silver beet and other types of spinach it resembles—and may be planted and harvested at any time of the year.

One of its attributes is that the more heavily it is picked the better it grows. This means it is an extremely handy vegetable to have around as it provides a supply of high iron content greens when other green vegetables are in short supply. It is easily cooked — about three minutes steaming will suffice —

and is also well suited to deep freeze storage. It has a taste similar to conventional spinach and silver beet but with less pungency than cress. Another advantage is that it grows in clumps — not rows — and may be planted anywhere without taking up" valuable vegetable plot space. It will, for example, grow quite happily under trees or shrubs, along borders and In fact in any odd corner of the garden.