Most people are not familiar with this plant or not having the climate for it.
I grew spinach before, lots of problems with aphids. I find Swiss chards grow bigger, and trouble free, self-seeding, so I grow the chards instead .
On a side note, I also collected a ton of nettle shoots last weekend, washed and quickly blanched in boiling water to get rid of the stings, they taste just like spinach as well. There are fields and fields of them growing wild where I live and I've never seen people picking them. I am not sure if food banks are comfortable accepting them. The bugs will quickly descend on them so the harvestable window is pretty short.
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