"Richard Wright" wrote in message
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On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:15:51 GMT, "0tterbot" wrote:

hello!
having a nice crop of spinach just lately (first time ever!)

it's not a big deal, but i was wondering if anyone knows why some of my
spinach plants get "bubbly" leaves - it's as though the edges of the leaf
stop growing at some point, but the bulk of the leaf continues to expand,
so
you get a wavy sort of surface to each leaf on the affected plants. some
plants are like this on every leaf, others not affected at all. the
cultivar
is "medina" fwiw.

thanks if anyone knows!

kylie (who is enjoying spring enormously thank you very much).


I thought that the bubbly leaf is an invariable attribute of the
Silverbeet group of spinaches.

it is!

Not, though, of English spinach.

exactly, it's not! :-) the spinach in question is true spinach, not
silverbeet. (i never worry when the silverbeet goes bubbly).

http://www.taste.com.au/how+to/articles/293/spinach

.... like the lower two in the photograph.
it also occurred to me that the bubbly plants don't grow tall like the
middle bunch there - they stay short & get sort of wide.
thanks!
kylie


Richard