4A ܂ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2018 ܂ APPEAL TRIBUNE
4 kinds of spinach varieties to grow
Gardening
Carol Savonen
Guest columnist
Question: I love fresh spinach. But I
planted it in this spring and it hardly
grew. Now it is bolting. What is the
problem?
Answer: Spinach is sensitive to day
length. When the days get longer, it
wants to flower. So little growth and
long days means the plants will bloom
when they are still small.
Growing true broadleaf spinach usu-
ally easiest in the cooler spring and fall.
Since it is nearing summer solstice, try
planting other leafy greens that are
more heat tolerant. These are not true
spinaches, but can be used as such: New
Zealand, amaranth, or orach are all oth-
er species of leafy greens that taste a lot
like spinach. They thrive in the heat and
don’t bolt as easily as true broadleaf
spinaches. All are tested and sold by lo-
cal western Oregon seed companies.
New Zealand “spinach” (Tetrago-
nia expansa) welcomes long, hot days
and will yield well until frost. This
warmth-loving leafy green also per-
forms well in containers, growing back
after cutting. As the outer large leaves of
New Zealand “spinach” may be tough,
use only the most tender leaves. Not re-
lated to true spinach, it does not bolt or
turn bitter in hot weather and is high in
vitamin C. Available at Victory Seeds:
https://www.victoryseeds.com/spin-
ach_new-zealand.html
Amaranth - The leaves of this plant
can be eaten when they are young.
When the plant gets mature, it bears ed-
ible, protein rich seeds, good in bread.
Adaptive Seeds, a local seed company
sells several lovely varieties that are as
beautiful as ornamentals: https://
www.adaptiveseeds.com/seeds/vege-
tables/amaranth-vegetables/
Orach (Atriplex hortensis) - This
wonderful deep purple mountain spin-
ach is a terrific summer green. It grows
to 5 feet tall with thick, slightly wrin-
kled, large, spade-shaped purple leaves
Contains three times the vitamin C as
spinach. An outstanding annual orna-
mental edible. Available through Terri-
Growing true broadleaf spinach is usually easiest in the cooler spring and fall. GETTY IMAGES
torial Seed: http://www.territorial-
seed.com/product/Double_Purple_Or-
ach_Organic_Seed
Traditional, cool season or broadleaf
spinach varieties are best grown when
the weather stays below 75 degrees F. I’d
plant some true spinach again in the late
summer, on the shady side of larger
plants, such as tomatoes.
Other garden tasks for June:
܂ Prune your spring flowering shrubs
after blooming including lilacs, forsyth-
ia, rhododendrons, and azaleas.
܂ Thin your young veggies, then en-
joy the thinnings: lettuce, onion, car-
rots, beet greens, chard.
܂ Don’t forget to pick strawberries or
the birds or disease will get them first.
܂ Mulch your flower beds with an
inch or two of sawdust, lawn clippings,
barkdust, or composted leaves. Mulch
helps prevent soil moisture loss and dis-
courages weeds.
܂ Take off some of your tree fruits af-
ter the natural fruit drop. Apples, pears
and peaches bear larger fruits and have
more even bearing year to year if some
of the fruits are removed from each clus-
ter when small.
܂ Keep it growing! Sow more vegeta-
bles from seed: lettuce, greens, peas,
bush beans, beets, bulb fennel for late
summer and early fall harvest. Plant
your melons, cucumbers and squash
starts by the middle of the month.
Carol Savonen is a naturalist and
writer. She is an associate professor
emeritus at OSU and tends a large gar-
den in the Coast Range Hills west of Phi-
lomath with her husband and dogs. She
can be reached at Carol.Savonen@ore-
gonstate.edu or c/o: EESC, 422 Kerr Ad-
min. Bldg., OSU, Corvallis, OR 97331.
reational marijuana was Lucky Leaf,
located nearby at 208 Jersey Street.
Regularly, tickets are $20, although
they’re always discounted to $5 for
Silverton residents and college stu-
dents. Children are free.
To buy tickets, log on to http://
www.thegordonhouse.org/events.html.
On June 9, ticketholders will be added
to a master list kept at the door, where
they can enter the 1957 home, take
self-guided tours and enjoy birthday
treats.
— Christena Brooks
IN BRIEF
Second marijuana
shop open
A second marijuana dispensary opened
in Silverton on June 1, more than two
years after the town’s first cannabis
storefront arrived in 2016.
Silver Creek Dispensary is operating in
the building most recently occupied by
MAPS Credit Union, at 307 E. Main
Street. It’s between Oak Street Well-
ness and Columbia Bank.
Owner Nolan Gillespie, of Silverton, and
manager Clayton Gillespie, of Salem,
are stepping into the recreational side
of marijuana sales after experience
selling medical cannabis, they said.
Their store features “a wide variety of
products for every person,” at prices on
par with the Salem-area market, Clay-
ton said.
Silverton’s first dispensary to open
after Oregonians voted to legalize rec-
Frank Lloyd Wright
birthday open house
For $5, fans of Frank Lloyd Wright can
tour one of the houses he designed.
The Gordon House, located on the low-
er grounds of the Oregon Garden, is
offering discounted tickets good for
Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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