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Maintaining spinach and rocket crops
These have been producing very well the last few weeks and I'd like to keep
them going for as long as I'm able. Should I just keep watering with some liquid fertiliser periodically? I'm collecting leaves for salads and stuff every second day atm. How long should I wait before I sew more seeds for a new crop? Can I keep doing this until the weather changes? I am in Melbourne. Thanks Liz |
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"Staycalm" wrote in message
... These have been producing very well the last few weeks and I'd like to keep them going for as long as I'm able. Should I just keep watering with some liquid fertiliser periodically? I'm collecting leaves for salads and stuff every second day atm. How long should I wait before I sew more seeds for a new crop? Can I keep doing this until the weather changes? I am in Melbourne. Thanks Liz ime, rocket grows very fast & readily & flowers quickly too, so just sow more every so often, or pick it more vigorously to put off flowering. you don't _have_ to re-sow often if you don't want to - you can eat it even when it's fully flowering, but a lot of people find it too peppery by then. :-) spinach otoh is slower all around ime. i had some that lasted for absolutely _ages_, i just picked off the outer leaves as required & they never flowered (they died of heat instead when hot weather came ;-)). if it's not too hot for spinach where you are atm, sow again or just try to keep them going, it's up to you. generally speaking though, spinach gets cranky in summer. i gave some a go, but it just didn't want to live. i might try again - we're having a cold snap now g. all around though i find spinach really temperamental - i'm just hanging out for my ruby chard to get a tiny bit bigger, & eat the baby leaves of that instead. (i've also ordered n.z. spinach (warrigal) seeds from digger's, but that's another story). kylie |
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"0tterbot" wrote in message
... "Staycalm" wrote in message ... These have been producing very well the last few weeks and I'd like to keep them going for as long as I'm able. Should I just keep watering with some liquid fertiliser periodically? I'm collecting leaves for salads and stuff every second day atm. How long should I wait before I sew more seeds for a new crop? Can I keep doing this until the weather changes? I am in Melbourne. Thanks Liz ime, rocket grows very fast & readily & flowers quickly too, so just sow more every so often, or pick it more vigorously to put off flowering. you don't _have_ to re-sow often if you don't want to - you can eat it even when it's fully flowering, but a lot of people find it too peppery by then. :-) spinach otoh is slower all around ime. i had some that lasted for absolutely _ages_, i just picked off the outer leaves as required & they never flowered (they died of heat instead when hot weather came ;-)). if it's not too hot for spinach where you are atm, sow again or just try to keep them going, it's up to you. generally speaking though, spinach gets cranky in summer. i gave some a go, but it just didn't want to live. i might try again - we're having a cold snap now g. all around though i find spinach really temperamental - i'm just hanging out for my ruby chard to get a tiny bit bigger, & eat the baby leaves of that instead. (i've also ordered n.z. spinach (warrigal) seeds from digger's, but that's another story). kylie I planted my spinach and rocket in the NW corner of the garden, with loads of mulch around and they have been sown very densly. I have been trying to give them regular doses of liquid fertilizer. They have been going great guns. I got given a plant of Warrigal greens for Chrissy! Is it nice to eat? Liz |
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"Staycalm" wrote in message
... spinach otoh is slower all around ime. i had some that lasted for absolutely _ages_, i just picked off the outer leaves as required & they never flowered (they died of heat instead when hot weather came ;-)). if it's not too hot for spinach where you are atm, sow again or just try to keep them going, it's up to you. generally speaking though, spinach gets cranky in summer. i gave some a go, but it just didn't want to live. i might try again - we're having a cold snap now g. all around though i find spinach really temperamental - i'm just hanging out for my ruby chard to get a tiny bit bigger, & eat the baby leaves of that instead. (i've also ordered n.z. spinach (warrigal) seeds from digger's, but that's another story). kylie I planted my spinach and rocket in the NW corner of the garden, with loads of mulch around and they have been sown very densly. I have been trying to give them regular doses of liquid fertilizer. They have been going great guns. I got given a plant of Warrigal greens for Chrissy! Is it nice to eat? i don't know yet!! i hope so :-) eat some & let me know! i was perusing the digger's catalogue & noted that it's a frost-hardy perennial (hurrah), so for $2.50 or whatever it is, i thought i can't go wrong :-) it probably doesn't taste exactly like spinach, but we'll see! (hopefully it's yummy, & if not, life goes on). baby nasturtium leaves are yummy, we've been putting those in the salad just lately. kylie |
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i'm just hanging out for my ruby chard to get a tiny bit bigger, & eat the baby leaves of that instead Apparently there is an acid in silverbeet (swiss chard) that is bad for people with gout, and possibly for asthmatics. My missus had an asthma attack after eating raw silverbeet, but she doesn't have a problem when it is cooked. Just something to think about if you use it for salads. |
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oups.com... 0tterbot wrote: i'm just hanging out for my ruby chard to get a tiny bit bigger, & eat the baby leaves of that instead Apparently there is an acid in silverbeet (swiss chard) that is bad for people with gout, and possibly for asthmatics. My missus had an asthma attack after eating raw silverbeet, but she doesn't have a problem when it is cooked. Just something to think about if you use it for salads. really? didn't know that! i might see if that will work on my father in law... just joking. i love ruby chard and five-colour chard because it's just so utterly beautiful to look at!! (and the baby leaves are delicious). kylie |
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"0tterbot" wrote in message ... wrote in message oups.com... 0tterbot wrote: i'm just hanging out for my ruby chard to get a tiny bit bigger, & eat the baby leaves of that instead Apparently there is an acid in silverbeet (swiss chard) that is bad for people with gout, and possibly for asthmatics. My missus had an asthma attack after eating raw silverbeet, but she doesn't have a problem when it is cooked. Just something to think about if you use it for salads. really? didn't know that! i might see if that will work on my father in law... green potatos or rubarb leaves are best rob |
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"0tterbot" wrote: (i've also ordered n.z. spinach (warrigal) seeds from digger's, but that's another story). I did that, thinking it would make a nice ground cover on my native plant bed. Well, that's like saying that Hitler would make a nice leader of Germany. Rampant didn't begin to describe it... it went across the ground, up the shrubs (I had to rip it off to prevent it strangling them), and now it's coming up in the vegie patch. And I don't find it palatable. On the positive side, it is no longer rampant because my chooks love it. They are currently free-ranging and will keep it from being completely feral until I pop them into their tractor again. I don't know what you'd do if you don't have chooks... -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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I think silverbeet is related to rhubarb, so I would imagine
silverbeet contains a certain amount of oxalic acid in the leaves, although not as much as rhubarb. Tish On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:01:00 GMT, "0tterbot" wrote: wrote in message roups.com... 0tterbot wrote: i'm just hanging out for my ruby chard to get a tiny bit bigger, & eat the baby leaves of that instead Apparently there is an acid in silverbeet (swiss chard) that is bad for people with gout, and possibly for asthmatics. My missus had an asthma attack after eating raw silverbeet, but she doesn't have a problem when it is cooked. Just something to think about if you use it for salads. really? didn't know that! i might see if that will work on my father in law... just joking. i love ruby chard and five-colour chard because it's just so utterly beautiful to look at!! (and the baby leaves are delicious). kylie |
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"Chookie" wrote in message
... In article , "0tterbot" wrote: (i've also ordered n.z. spinach (warrigal) seeds from digger's, but that's another story). I did that, thinking it would make a nice ground cover on my native plant bed. Well, that's like saying that Hitler would make a nice leader of Germany. Rampant didn't begin to describe it... it went across the ground, up the shrubs (I had to rip it off to prevent it strangling them), and now it's coming up in the vegie patch. And I don't find it palatable. On the positive side, it is no longer rampant because my chooks love it. They are currently free-ranging and will keep it from being completely feral until I pop them into their tractor again. I don't know what you'd do if you don't have chooks... I think today's heat has done in the one I was given for Christmas :-( Liz |
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"Chookie" wrote in message
... In article , "0tterbot" wrote: (i've also ordered n.z. spinach (warrigal) seeds from digger's, but that's another story). I did that, thinking it would make a nice ground cover on my native plant bed. Well, that's like saying that Hitler would make a nice leader of Germany. Rampant didn't begin to describe it... it went across the ground, up the shrubs (I had to rip it off to prevent it strangling them), and now it's coming up in the vegie patch. And I don't find it palatable. On the positive side, it is no longer rampant because my chooks love it. They are currently free-ranging and will keep it from being completely feral until I pop them into their tractor again. I don't know what you'd do if you don't have chooks... lmao, that sounds like you have super-intelligent and evil hens to use all your heavy machinery for you.... ahem. (i do understand the chicken tractor, fear not). what you say here is not to me a bad thing :-) firstly, i doubt my soil's anywhere near as good as yours - it may not go feral at all. secondly, i'm always on the lookout for easy greens for the chooks. they've been a bit grassless lately and the colour of their yolks is SO much nicer with more greens (plus it's good for them, since they scoff it up). if the warrigal gets going, i'll keep a careful eye on it just in case!!! kylie |
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"0tterbot" wrote: ahem. (i do understand the chicken tractor, fear not). what you say here is not to me a bad thing :-) firstly, i doubt my soil's anywhere near as good as yours - it may not go feral at all. This was my native garden bed, which is made of sandstone rubble. secondly, i'm always on the lookout for easy greens for the chooks. they've been a bit grassless lately and the colour of their yolks is SO much nicer with more greens (plus it's good for them, since they scoff it up). Well that's all right then! -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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"0tterbot" wrote in message
if the warrigal gets going, i'll keep a careful eye on it just in case!!! Beastly stuff IMHO. Best used for chook greens :-)) |
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Tish wrote: I think silverbeet is related to rhubarb, so I would imagine silverbeet contains a certain amount of oxalic acid in the leaves, although not as much as rhubarb. That's the one. |
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Tish wrote: I think silverbeet is related to rhubarb, so I would imagine silverbeet contains a certain amount of oxalic acid in the leaves, although not as much as rhubarb. That's the one. I thought that the acid involved with gout was Uric acid not oxalic acid? Does oxalic acid change into uric acid within the body? And silverbeet is not related to rhubarb. Silverbeet is related to the beet family as is spinach. |
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