Baby Spinach

[vi...@dinky.vm.bytemark.co.uk]

I'm sure this is a really dim question, but ...

is baby spinach a seperate type of spinach (like baby sweetcorn), or is it just
spinach leaves picked young?

[Baz]

<vi...@dinky.vm.bytemark.co.uk> wrote in
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>
> I'm sure this is a really dim question, but ...
>
> is baby spinach a seperate type of spinach (like baby sweetcorn), or
> is it just spinach leaves picked young?

Not a dim question. They would be called dwarf I think if they were meant
to remain small. Baby spinach as far as I know are young, tender leaves
that are very nice but milder flavour than a mature plant. The mature
spinach can taste ....erm.. strong. An aquired taste. For my lot anyway. I
like it anyway.

Baz

[vi...@dinky.vm.bytemark.co.uk]

Baz <b...@fawlty.com> wrote:
>> I'm sure this is a really dim question, but ...
>>
>> is baby spinach a seperate type of spinach (like baby sweetcorn), or
>> is it just spinach leaves picked young?
>
> Not a dim question. They would be called dwarf I think if they were meant
> to remain small. Baby spinach as far as I know are young, tender leaves
> that are very nice but milder flavour than a mature plant. The mature
> spinach can taste ....erm.. strong. An aquired taste. For my lot anyway. I
> like it anyway.

Thanks Baz.

I seem to have come along late to the whole leaf-eating thing. I've always
had a hatred of salad, because I didn't like lettuce. Then I found some leaves
(mostly baby leaves) that I didn't dislike as much. Then i found that if I put
a particular salad dressing on them, they actually became vaguely pleasant.

So I've never actually grown any kind of salad, other than the rocket that went
a bit mad last year that Benjamin was meant to be doing.