When people ask me about easy food plants to grow, I enthusiastically rave about perpetual spinach. I love growing them for several reasons. These plants want to grow. There are no demands for an extra dressing room or a tray of Skittles. They're down to earth. They're a member of the Beet family and not a true spinach. They have the flavour of spinach but, like silverbeet, are easier and hardier to grow. They're tough. I have perpetual spinach popping up in places that even