spinach - Slim Malabar Spinach

[Guest guest]

Hi Judy,

There is a lot of info on the web for Malabar spinach, if you google

for it. A lot of seed selling sites have it for ~$2.00 a pack. I

bought some from Park seeds, along with some other types, for a little

less. The gold-foil packs are undated but I put eight seeds in a wet

folded paper towel and they all seemed to germinate. The seeds start

the size of dark bb's but swell up to pearl-size and bleed red-purple

(amazingly) like a cheap dye coming out of a garment(!). I'm waiting

for my seedlings now and only have one so far in less than a week. I

don't think it is (supposed to be?) a particular cold-weather climber.

My strategy was to let it tolerate the (non-frosty) winters at my

house when regular spinach and kale should do well, and then carry on

for the warmer seasons. Check out the nutrition info. Wow! Let it get

man-sized and even truck-sized and it will be a lot more useful than

some of the big-ol' bushes I have to wrestle around here.

 

http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/kitchen/2006su_spinach.html

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c20nB.html

http://tinyurl.com/yrnb8g or

<<http://www.parkseed.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?storeId=\

10101 & catalogId=10101 & langId=-1 & mainPage=prod2working & ItemId=5660 & PrevMainPage=t\

extsearchresults & scChannel=Text%20Search & SearchText=spinach & OfferCode=TH1>>

 

 

, " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

>

> Slim this is interesting about the climbing spinach. I'll have to

look for seeds for that kind. Did you have to mail order them. I

have several trellis for climbing veggies that go unused in the cooler

months so this really interests me, as well as growing more in less

space. Thanks for sharing the info you have found out about.

> Judy

> -

> slim_langer

>

>

> I got the idea just recently of trying to grow some greens around the

> house. (!?!)

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much Slim. I'm going to enjoy browsing these sites. I hope more of

your seeds sprout soon and you have an abundant crop. Yeah about the added

bonus of great nutrition.

Judy

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slim_langer

Monday, August 20, 2007 1:36 PM

Re: spinach - Slim Malabar Spinach

 

 

 

Hi Judy,

There is a lot of info on the web for Malabar spinach, if you google

for it. A lot of seed selling sites have it for ~$2.00 a pack. I

bought some from Park seeds, along with some other types, for a little

less. The gold-foil packs are undated but I put eight seeds in a wet

folded paper towel and they all seemed to germinate. The seeds start

the size of dark bb's but swell up to pearl-size and bleed red-purple

(amazingly) like a cheap dye coming out of a garment(!). I'm waiting

for my seedlings now and only have one so far in less than a week. I

don't think it is (supposed to be?) a particular cold-weather climber.

My strategy was to let it tolerate the (non-frosty) winters at my

house when regular spinach and kale should do well, and then carry on

for the warmer seasons. Check out the nutrition info. Wow! Let it get

man-sized and even truck-sized and it will be a lot more useful than

some of the big-ol' bushes I have to wrestle around here.

 

http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/kitchen/2006su_spinach.html

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c20nB.html

http://tinyurl.com/yrnb8g or

<<http://www.parkseed.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?storeId=\

10101 & catalogId=10101 & langId=-1 & mainPage=prod2working & ItemId=5660 & PrevMainPage=t\

extsearchresults & scChannel=Text%20Search & SearchText=spinach & OfferCode=TH1>>

 

, " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

>

> Slim this is interesting about the climbing spinach. I'll have to

look for seeds for that kind. Did you have to mail order them. I

have several trellis for climbing veggies that go unused in the cooler

months so this really interests me, as well as growing more in less

space. Thanks for sharing the info you have found out about.

> Judy

> -

> slim_langer

>

>

> I got the idea just recently of trying to grow some greens around the

> house. (!?!)