[Homestead] Calaloo

EarthNSky erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Sun Jul 20 16:52:36 EDT 2008


No, haven't kept the seeds, but it wouldn't be difficult to do that as 
they are large.  When I first planted it, I never thought it would come 
back.  That year, it was next to the beans and it climbed the bean pole. 
  The second year, it just crawled over the bed, then over the plastic 
pipe hoop, and last year, I discovered it would climb a tomato cage, so 
that's what it is climbing this year. It dies back to the ground at the 
first freeze.  Basically, it's easy, it's pretty, and you can eat it. 
What more can you ask for?

Bev

Robert Walton wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:15 AM, EarthNSky <erthnsky at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Speaking of things like that, I bought some Malabar Spinach a few years
>> back and every year I am more and more pleased with it.
>> http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/kitchen/2006su_spinach.html
>> This should be in every Southern garden, at least.  It says perennial in
>> the Deep South, which I consider zone 8 and 9, but mine has
>> perennialized here in a raised bed (zone 7)...global warming perhaps??
>>
>> Bev
> 
> 
> That sounds like a good one, too. Do you keep seeds from it? Do you
> grow it on a trellis or just let it run?
> 
> Rob - Va
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