Our neighbor emailed us that he has an overload of spinach, some of it wintered over and then then three rows that he planted in early March. He has also stated these new plants (above), some more spinach and some lettuce. We went down there with a shopping bag and we easily filled it without making a noticeable dent in the plants. And while we were there we planted two more rows of spinach and some cilantro.
Spinach, for me, will forever be associated with the superhuman strength the it gave Popeye. Our friend Bill needs his spinach now as the battles the cancer they found last week. We plan to make our favorite spinach dish for him, garbanzos con espinacas, and drop it off this afternoon.
from wiki — In every Popeye cartoon, the sailor is invariably put into what seems like a hopeless situation, upon which (usually after a beating), a can of spinach which he apparently regularly carries with him falls out from inside his shirt. Popeye immediately pops the can open and gulp the entire contents of it into his mouth, or sometimes sucks in the spinach through his corncob pipe. Upon swallowing the spinach, Popeye’s physical strength immediately becomes almost superhuman, and he is easily able to save the day (and very often rescue Olive Oyl from a dire situation).
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