Growing Spinach, also English spinach

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21 Oct 13 Erika Kimber (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I live in Qld - sub tropical climate. I have to say that I am surprised to find that apparently spinach does not grow in sub tropical climates. I planted baby spinach from seedlings at the start of September. They get 5 hours of full sun shine/day. That's full sun, no shade. I also have red spinach that I planted from seedling 4 weeks ago. No wilting, except once when I didn't water them early enough in the day. The chooks and myself have been harvesting a handful of leaves every second day or so. At the moment our ave. daily temp is around 30c, So I say give it ago.
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