I thought it was spinach!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:04 pm
So, I have a funny story but it is also a tale of warning not to eat things you aren't positive what they are. Well, I was positive what I had but it turned out to be something different. The tale of two leaves.
I planted potatoes last November in one of my tall mineral tubs and since it takes so long to grow them I decided to plant some bloomsdale longstanding spinach to get a crop of something before the potatoes came up. I have only grown potatoes once before and it was last spring with a huge failure of everything I planted because of the heat wave and drought we had. So, I never really got to see what potato leaves looked like. I also planted the spinach I had never grown before either. I was so excited because it looked like the spinach was growing really well and I was counting down the days to harvesting for a fritatta.
The day comes and I decide to taste a leaf and after washing it I took a big leaf and began to chew. I spit it out so fast because it was extremely bitter, it did not taste good at all so I went inside and looked up bloomsdale longstanding spinach pictures and what I had was nothing like what it was supposed to be. So, I went trying to find the leaf I had and had zero success so I called the county master gardeners and sent them a picture of what I had in my containers. They called me back and asked, "how about potatoes?". I about fell out of my chair, lol. I am sure glad I spit it out, and that it was bitter because that might have been detrimental on my internal organs. So, never again will I eat something new that I think I planted without making sure it is exactly what I planted. So those spinach seeds never germinated for me, lol. I planted more to see if I could get some and I have now transplanted them into the reworked earth box containers so will see how much spinach I can get before it gets too hot out there.
