Spinach
Monstrueux de Viroflay spinach
Monstrueux de Viroflay spinach: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Monstrueux de Viroflay spinach stands out for its very broad, fleshy leaves and vigorous growth. This traditional variety of Spinacia oleracea is a true annual spinach. It is a leafy vegetable: the useful kitchen parts are the leaves and their stalks, which connect each blade to the plant.The leaves initially form a rosette close to the ground. As they develop, they give the plant a generous outline, quite different from spinach seen only as small salad leaves. Broad, substantial leaf blades are this variety’s most recognisable feature. Their actual size depends on the plant’s stage and growing conditions.Monstrueux de Viroflay is early and hardy, and is particularly associated with cooler seasons and autumn crops. That preference does not make it a perennial or a vegetable unaffected by heat. Like other annual spinach, it can switch from leafy growth to producing a flowering stem. This change in outline belongs to its…
