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Ive just found a packet of seeds at a nursery called 'Ceylon or Indian Spinach' which is a climbing variety! Has anybody grown this before? I am giving it a try this year out of sheer curiosity!
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Googled it and found this http://www.evergreenseeds.com/malabarspinach.html does it look like the same plant?
Sounds very interesting - haven't got the space or I might be tempted, we all love spinach around here!The weeks and the years are fine. It's the days I can't cope with!
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I've only just sown so will let you know what it's like. Other sites have said it can be quite rampant, we'll see!Comment
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Hi Gingerhev,
I used to grow them before, they can be pretty rampant. there are 2 types : red stem and green stem, I used to have both of them. They are easy to grow, don't need much caring, they need sunny locations and moist ground.
You can cook and eat them, their taste is not bad but a bit slime.
Hope it help.
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I've always struggled growing spinach for some reason.
Every time I've tried growing it its bolted or been munched to death.
I'm growing leaf beet instead this year with hopefully more luckI'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy
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leef beet is so much easier,I don't bother with spinach either.
i'm a chard fan..start eating the thinnings,then gently harvest from the final plants through summer, stillgrowing wellfor harvesting autumn & early winter.
Jan & feb can pull leaves as long as it's not freezing & continue through til the plant throws up it's flower spike late spring the following year.If the plants are happy you can keepthe previous years ones going while this year's seedlings are fattening up.
What other crop can you do this with?JaneComment
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