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  • From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] summer greens
  • Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 11:20:40 -0400

 
 
 
3034PS Perpetual Spinach or Leaf Beet (55 days) Open-pollinated. Thanks to Pam Dawling who suggested we add this member of the chard family. Leaf beet should be cultured like any other chard variety. It looks similar to other swiss chards, but its stems are thinner, and its exceptionally tender leaves are smoother, not puckered. It tastes unlike any other chard, imparting a spinach-like flavor that lingers pleasantly. Unlike spinach, Perpetual lasts through summer into fall as it withstands light and moderate frosts. Production from June to October, reports one central Vermont grower. Dawling calls it a “must-grow.”
 
 
3034PS Perpetual Spinach or Leaf Beet (55 days) Open-pollinated. Thanks to Pam Dawling who suggested we add this member of the chard family. Leaf beet should be cultured like any other chard variety. It looks similar to other swiss chards, but its stems are thinner, and its exceptionally tender leaves are smoother, not puckered. It tastes unlike any other chard, imparting a spinach-like flavor that lingers pleasantly. Unlike spinach, Perpetual lasts through summer into fall as it withstands light and moderate frosts. Production from June to October, reports one central Vermont grower. Dawling calls it a “must-grow.”



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