SPINACH BEET.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20233, 17 February 1934, Page 23 (Supplement)

SPINACH BEET.

To those with a limited garden accommodation, and who require a vegetable to come in when other 6orts are off. or not ready, there is nothing that can equal spinach beet or perpetual spinach, both of which are one and the same thing. Spinach beet will yield pickings over a long period, in fact it can be considered available all the year round. Seed sown now will produce plants that will give a picking towards the end of summer and will continue throughout the autumn and winter. The ground should be well prepared by being deeply dug and well manured. The seed should be sown in drills, allowing two feet between the drills, although in most cases one row would be sufficient. The plants when up should be thinned to a foot apart. This plant is a native of the sea coa#>t, and if a ligrht dressing of common salt is aunlied to the ground it can either be dug in before the seed is sown or put on after plants are a fair size, or at both periods. It will cause the plants to be much more vigorous and to give larger and more tender leaves. One ounce of salt to a yard of drill will be sufficient at each application.