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What is causing transclucent brown spots on my perpetual spinach?

daniel123daniel123 Posts: 67
in Fruit & veg
Should I be concerned by the leaf below, or is it just sun damage?


The blotch only appears on one side of the leaf,

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  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    It looks like leaf miner damage to me, it's not generally any real issue just pull of any leaves showing it.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Agree, I had the same on my beetroot.  If a mark is still small, you can often see the miner inside and crush it within the leaf (depends on how much time you have on your hands!) ;)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Sabina13Sabina13 Posts: 113
    Ugh the bain of my gardening life, the leaf minor! I detest them, it feels icky to eat any leaf with LM damage on it so I stand there by the sink for what feels like an eternity looking through every single individual leaf of my salad and tear out the parts with eggs or squiggles. Ugh.

    Have I said ugh yet :smiley: 

    It almost makes me not want to grow any leafy green next year. 
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