Posted by Richard Wright on October 4, 2008, 3:42 pm
>>
>>>hello!
>>>having a nice crop of spinach just lately (first time ever!)
>>>
>>>it's not a big deal, but i was wondering if anyone knows why some of my
>>>spinach plants get "bubbly" leaves - it's as though the edges of the leaf
>>>stop growing at some point, but the bulk of the leaf continues to expand,
>>>so
>>>you get a wavy sort of surface to each leaf on the affected plants. some
>>>plants are like this on every leaf, others not affected at all. the
>>>cultivar
>>>is "medina" fwiw.
>>>
>>>thanks if anyone knows!
>>>
>>>kylie (who is enjoying spring enormously thank you very much).
>>>
>>
>> I thought that the bubbly leaf is an invariable attribute of the
>> Silverbeet group of spinaches.
>it is!
>> Not, though, of English spinach.
>exactly, it's not! :-) the spinach in question is true spinach, not
>silverbeet. (i never worry when the silverbeet goes bubbly).
>> http://www.taste.com.au/how+to/articles/293/spinach
>... like the lower two in the photograph.
>it also occurred to me that the bubbly plants don't grow tall like the
>middle bunch there - they stay short & get sort of wide.
>thanks!
>kylie
>>
>> Richard
Curiouser and curiouser. Can you put an image of the disease
somewhere? It might ring a bell with somebody.
Posted by 0tterbot on October 6, 2008, 6:25 pm
>>> http://www.taste.com.au/how+to/articles/293/spinach
>>
>>... like the lower two in the photograph.
>>it also occurred to me that the bubbly plants don't grow tall like the
>>middle bunch there - they stay short & get sort of wide.
>>thanks!
>>kylie
>>
>>>
>>> Richard
>>
> Curiouser and curiouser. Can you put an image of the disease
> somewhere? It might ring a bell with somebody.
well, technically i _could_, but it seems unlikely! :-)
thanks anyway richard.
kylie
XML site map
>>>hello!
>>>having a nice crop of spinach just lately (first time ever!)
>>>
>>>it's not a big deal, but i was wondering if anyone knows why some of my
>>>spinach plants get "bubbly" leaves - it's as though the edges of the leaf
>>>stop growing at some point, but the bulk of the leaf continues to expand,
>>>so
>>>you get a wavy sort of surface to each leaf on the affected plants. some
>>>plants are like this on every leaf, others not affected at all. the
>>>cultivar
>>>is "medina" fwiw.
>>>
>>>thanks if anyone knows!
>>>
>>>kylie (who is enjoying spring enormously thank you very much).
>>>
>>
>> I thought that the bubbly leaf is an invariable attribute of the
>> Silverbeet group of spinaches.
>it is!
>> Not, though, of English spinach.
>exactly, it's not! :-) the spinach in question is true spinach, not
>silverbeet. (i never worry when the silverbeet goes bubbly).
>> http://www.taste.com.au/how+to/articles/293/spinach
>... like the lower two in the photograph.
>it also occurred to me that the bubbly plants don't grow tall like the
>middle bunch there - they stay short & get sort of wide.
>thanks!
>kylie
>>
>> Richard