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Bordeaux
- A rapid growing early maturing
first spinach for garden and
greenhouse. Arrowshaped smooth dark
green red-veined leaves often are
used in mesclun. Stems are also red,
but turn green when cooked. Fedco’s
trialer preferred Bordeaux’s sweet
and delicate flavor over all her
other varieties and kept nibbling
off leaves.
Bloomsdale
- The standard crinkled-leaf
spinach. Very good cold soil
emergence. Much better as a fall
crop than in spring when it bolts in
the heat. Recent hybrids surpass it
in production and bolt resistance
but the taste cannot be beat.
Giant Thick Leafed
- This old variety has dark green
leaves on spreading plants.
Prolific spinach that has huge,
thick, smooth leaves.
Viroflay –This
heirloom dates back to 1885! The
dark green, crisp, smooth, leaves of
this variety can grow 10"x 8" wide
at the base! This has the low acid
taste many prefer.
Strawberry -
Also known as “Strawberry Blite”,
the delicate saw-toothed leaves and
stems grow on 1½ foot plants, and
are equally delicious eaten raw or
steamed. The tiny red fruits on the
plants are tasty in salads. |
