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; Better than Spinach 


This picture illustrates a full grown plant. When this size, break off clusters of leaves at tip of branches; 
then the plants will continue to produce all summer. 
1376 Burpee’s Red Tampala (Tam-pal’-a) is equal in all respects to Burpee’s 
Tampala, introduced by us last year, but instead of the leaves being green they are 
variegated green and red. When cooked, they have a different, sweeter flavor, prob- 
ably due to the red pigment found along the midrib and extending out along the 
veins of the dark green leaves whose underside also is red. Prepared and served like 
spinach, it is appetizing and most delicious. Tampala is very high in Vitamin A, 
Burpee’s Red having double the Vitamin A content of spinach. 
-Tampala is easy to grow, does well in hot weather and keeps on producing all 
summer. Sow seeds outdoors any time after the ground becomes warm. One sowing 
usually produces enough greens for the season. However, for a continuous supply 
of the most tender leaves, make several successive sowings, ten days or two weeks 
apart, and use the entire plants when 5 or 6 in. high. They should be ready in from 
6 to 8 weeks. Where plants are grown singly, 2 ft. apart, they make a large, round 
plant 1% ft. and more across and 2 ft. and more high; use the 4 or 5 inch tips of 
each branch and repeated cuttings may be made as new leaves and stems grow. 
1, oz. 55¢; 14 oz. $1.00; 1% oz. $1.85; oz. $3.60; 14 lb. $14.00; Ib. $54.00. 
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