Make the most of spinach and chard with these recipes

Valerie O’Connor has a garden full of green treasure and is working on recipes to use up a bountiful harvest of spinach and chard. 

A Greek dish of spinach and rice, best seasoned with salt and pepper.

IT’S wise old thing to confess, that I just love gardening. Herbacious borders leave me confused, ask me what ornamentals you should plant and I’ll probably mumble Japanese Maple just to make myself sound knowledgeable.

I’m far more likely to look around your garden, or anyone’s and say “Four raised beds for basic crop rotation covering all the edibles, a composter over there, a beehive back there and a chicken coop”.