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  • Good Organic Gardening

    YEAR-ROUND GREENS

    Dec 20, 2017 3 minutes
    Words Jennifer Stackhouse

    IN THE VEGIE PATCH

    Never be without a few plants of silverbeet in the garden. This long-lasting and easy-to-grow leafy vegetable will ensure there’s always something green and nutritious to harvest for dinner.

    Silverbeet is often called spinach, but its large puckered leaves and stiff stems are more robust than the delicate leaves of true or English spinach. The two plants are closely related and both are part of a large group of vegetables in the amaranth

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