Swiss Chard, Leaf Beet, Perpetual Spinach 'Gator Perpetual Spinach'

Owing to a number of continuous days of 40C plus temps (they are celsius degrees), my plantngs of this are looking rather sad at the mome...Read Morent. The heat is compounded by the fact that we have been on water restrictions for the past number of years and only allowed to put on our sprinklers twice a week in the evenings. This means I can't take a really representative photo at the moment.
However, I can tell you that this variety is much hardier than ordinary spinach in severely hot climates and that it is close to spinach in taste and tenderness. It is much nicer than its coarser swiss chard (silver beet) relative. If you are allowed to water it regularly, it is a winner!
As to spacing, I would guess that you plant it as for swiss chard.
We have had half a dozen meals from one plant already and if this heat breals we will have a lot more.
W, sweating in Western Australia.

Loved it. Not quite as tender as spinach, but darn close. Very easy to grow, very productive, produced from spring up until an unusually ...Read Morecold and snowy December storm.

Most of the plants did not survive the winter (unlike Fordhook Giant) but it's such a wonderful spinach alternative I just bought a bigger packet of seed to make up the difference.