[Market-farming] Beetberry?

Pat Meadows pat at meadows.pair.com
Fri Feb 8 12:26:49 EST 2008


On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:49:57 -0500, you wrote:

>http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/seed_menu.html
>
>
>Thye the Sand Hill seed site I found the following:
>
>"Beetberry:  70 days.  Plant early. Tasty berry-like fruits on the stems. 
>Sometimes called Strawberry Spinach. Pkt. $2.00 "
>
>Anyone have any experience with this one?
>

I've grown it.  I *very* unimpressed.  It's a chenopodium, the leaves
resemble those of spinach or beets or chard, but with less taste and in
much less abundance.  

The berries are very small, they are in the leaf axils.  The berries are
very insipid in taste; all I could taste was just a little sweetness.  But
no other taste at all.

Perhaps I didn't grow it well, but that was my experience.

I suppose it might have some 'child appeal' - if you have a children's
garden set up with (for example) the very short sunflowers and various
other child-friendly stuff, it might be useful.  But I think once they
taste a berry, they would lose interest anyway.

Pat
-- Northern Pennsylvania

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