Glut Cook

  Glut the Second Perpetual Spinach. Perpetual spinach is a revelation these beets just keep on giving. A heritage variety can keep you going for ages. Okay winter less so but you have so much to freeze it should not be a problem keeping yourself stocked with some spinach. Also if the seeds fall in autumn you end up with the stuff growing like weeds – suppressing other weeds at the same time. Our perpetual spinach seed spills, so we get surprising sports mixed across plots and plots in the garden – it nice to have as a weed that makes a great curry. We also collect the seed heads and share the seed via the foodbank. The only issue in keeping this a perpetual crop has been the extremes of heat and cold. Too cold and the little leaves don’t make it, but some of the massive roots seem to survive. After the travails and terrors of cold winters there is the heat and hardship of the summer. This upright plant becomes flaccid and droopy. So they need watering, but the mature roots see...