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Spinach flowers

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  Posted by Grayfleur (U14543614) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011

  Hi. Growing veggies for the first time. My spinach has been great, but now has flower buds -- does this mean I should dig it up and plant some more? Many thanks!

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  Posted by northwards (U14324094) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011

  Spinach is notorious for running to seed, so you're not alone in this (I assume you mean ordinary spinach and not the spinach beet kind)
  
  The quality of the leaves does deteriorate when it runs to seed, so I'd just pull it all up and sow some more. You can freeze what you've pulled up - just trim it, wash it well, shake the water off and steam it briefly - then just put it into plastic bags or tubs and put it in the freezer
  
  Of course you could always let it flower and set seed, and then collect the seed for next year. This works OK if you haven't grown an F1 variety. Personally I don't think it's worth the trouble, or the space the flowering plants take up, but if you have time and space you could try it

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  Posted by Grayfleur (U14543614) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011

  Huge thanks for the response and all the information, Northwards. I'm off out now to pick it all!

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