Spinacia oleracia seed

LATIN NAME: Spinacia oleracea

COMMON NAME: Spinach

The spinach spreads its dark, smooth leaves in the cool rows, and the small, green flowers rise in the dense spikes. The low, rosette-forming, annual plant carries the broad, smooth or slightly crinkled, dark-green leaves in the open rosettes, one of the fine, steady sights of the cool kitchen garden, to be followed by the small, green flowers in the dense spikes. The young leaves have a very long record as the fine, quick green of the old tables, and the plant is a fine, historic presence of the kitchen garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, rich ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The spinach is a historic subject of the plant science, and the dark leaves keep showing up in the work on the leafy greens. The chemistry of the broad, smooth leaves, which carry the fine, iron-rich greens of the old tables, has been studied steadily, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the leafy greens, the quick crops and the members of the amaranth family. The rosette habit and the quick growth have also made it a fine study plant, and the spinach is a regular subject of the work on the dark leaves of the cool world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The spinach is a fine, steady plant of the cool kitchen garden. The broad, smooth or slightly crinkled, dark-green leaves have a very long record as the fine, quick green of the old tables, the young leaves picked through the cool months for the salads, the soups and the warm dishes of the kitchen, and the plant comes up fast from the sowing. It is one of the fine choices for the cool kitchen garden, the early spring sowing and the study collection, and it has been written up in the culinary and the agricultural papers for the dark leaves and the quick ways. It is a fine, steady plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, rich garden.

Sow in the early spring or the autumn for the cool row, and the leaves will come fast.

To grow the spinach from seed, sow the small, prickly seeds a centimetre down in the row of fine, moist soil, keep the row in a bright, open spot and water gently, then thin the young plants to the steady spacing. The seedlings are up within a week or two and grow on fast. With the sun and the deep, moist, rich ground, the dark leaves will come through the cool months.

Uses: Culinary/Medicinal

Spinach has large thick dark green leaves with a crinkled texture