Veg ID please...

Posted by Wally on August 19, 2011, 10:06 am

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I have some of these growing among my beetroot, as the seed
came in the same packet I think they might be the same family.
Can anyone please identify them and let me know how to prepare
them for the table??

http://wally1002.tripod.com/wassit/DSCF0018.JPG

Thanks in advance.

Wally

Posted by Dave Hill on August 19, 2011, 10:09 am

Looks almost like young suggar beet to me.

Posted by Baz on August 20, 2011, 8:22 am

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Yes, looks like it.
Will go down nicely in the compost heap.

Baz

Posted by Bob Hobden on August 19, 2011, 11:39 am

"Wally" wrote ...

Looks like Perennial spinach or Spinach beet.

-- Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

Posted by Mike Lyle on August 21, 2011, 3:49 pm

wrote:

Yes; and if it isn't exactly a"spinach" variety, the leaves may do
just as well. Beetroot, sugar beet, spinach beet, mangels, they're all
varieties of the same species. (But you do have to like spinach beet,
and I don't like the flavour it seems to develop in my W Mids garden,
though I found it acceptable back in W Wales -- but that may just be a
change in my palate.)

--
Mike.