SO MANY GREENS
Aug 03, 2022
4 minutes
Words Jennifer Stackhouse
There are many different plants that get called spinach. All have edible green leaves — which range in size and palatability — and most are easy and quick to grow and also highly nutritious.
Many come from one plant family, Amaranthaceae, but there are representatives from other families, too. The wide variety means no garden needs to be without a useful leafy green to use as spinach.
ENGLISH SPINACH
The plant that is most entitled to the name of spinach is English spinach (), a leafy vegetable with soft green leaves. It’s mostly grown in Australian gardens as a winter or spring vegetable as
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