Spinach Bolts or Mislabelled Seeds

recently (not) consumed

food: bolting spinach

tasting notes

So, our garden is not doing so hot this year. The bunnies are devouring our beans. The zucchini doth not flowereth the way it did last year (when at this time we were trying to give our zucchini crop away to whoever would take it). It must just be a weird year.

The weirdest of all was our so called “spinach”. As it poked through the surface in perfectly formed little rows, I knew there was no way it could be weeds. But, the more it grew the stranger it looked. I guess I had assumed the plants would eventually start to look like spinach, but to my dismay… they just kept growing until they grew to be about 2 feet tall, turned yellow, and died. They had no smell, no flowers. I think I’ve finally admitted to myself that these plants were probably not, never were, and never will be spinach.

I’ve been looking all over the internet for some sort of “identify my mystery plant” web site. The only sites I could find have you start off by entering in a species name. If I knew what the species name was, then why would I need help “identifying” it?

So add this to my list of useful Flickr mashups. I want a web site that will pull up photos of plants via tags (broad leaf, prickly, tall, yellow). Only then would I be able to discover if my mystery plant was bolting spinach, a particularly boring herb, weeds, or something else entirely.

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