We always grow Perpetual Spinach in our vegetable garden because it performs very well, time and time again, year on year.

Perpetual Spinach is better than normal spinach because

• It doesn’t bolt when the weather gets hot,
• When you harvest the outer leaves, the plant keeps growing in the centre giving you more and more leaves,
• It’s easy to grow just sow in cells, plant out and water,
• It tastes the same as English spinach
• It is part of the chard family,
• It is very vigorous and the leaves are big,
• Long lasting plants for up to 5 months in the vegetable garden,
• Ideally suited to small vegetable gardens.

If you are reading this thinking I might give this spinach ago, there’s still time to sow Perpetual Spinach over winter in September or October for a Spring Harvest or start sowing in March or April for a Summer Harvest.

Strawberries

The thing I love about growing your own strawberries, is it doesn’t matter whether they are a bit nobbly, a bit small or they’ve got a bit taken out of them where you have saved it from a hungry woodlouse, they are your homegrown fruit. And that’s what makes them taste so much better.

For other Vegetables we have harvested this year, click here for – Harvests.