APRIL NEWS
We’ve been busy in the garden sowing seeds and planting spuds. It was a slow start but now everything has really woken up and we are eating lots of sprouting broccoli and spinach. Spinach is a vegetable that thrives in the Irish climate. If you are thinking of planting some vegetables this year, perpetual spinach should be high up the list as a trouble free high producer of fantastic green leaves We grow perpetual spinach in our tunnel and outside in the garden. We pick it for about nine months of the year. I sow the seeds in February/March for the tunnel and March/April for the outside patch. The spinach needs very little attention apart from dealing with the weeds and right now we are picking bucketfuls once again. The cycle goes something like this. Sow the seeds, transplant the seedlings and a few weeks later start picking. When the weather gets very cold the spinach will slow right down but as soon as it warms up again it will be off. It even survived this year’s extreme cold weather and blanket of snow. We’ll get to about April and last years spinach will begin to bolt but the new seedlings will be just about ready to step in. So if you have a patch for growing vegetables and like spinach this is a fantastic vegetable to grow. Be sure to grow perpetual spinach if you want a steady supply as true spinach will bolt quickly.