[Market-farming] Beetberry?
Marty Kraft
martyk at allspecies.org
Fri Feb 8 17:56:18 EST 2008
Come to Missouri for mulberries. You have to eat the dark purple ones
and all trees are not the same. As a child, some of my best friends
were mulberry trees.
Marty Kraft
On Feb 8, 2008, at 11:27 AM, tonitime at juno.com wrote:
> I am curious, too. Here is a description from elsewhere. Mulberry
> taste? The mulberries i have eaten when living in CA were more
> boring than they looked to taste! If they reseed anything like such
> as Sunberry/Wonderberry ( Solanum Burbankii), i'd be cautious where
> they are planted.
> Toni
>
>
> STRAWBERRY SPINACH- aka Beetberry, Strawberry Blite, Chenopodium
> capitatum - Salad~Dessert in one plant! This is a very rare ancient
> vegetable dating back 400 years! It was rediscovered at old
> monasteries in Europe. It is similar to Lamb's Quarters in habit,
> although smaller. Grows 1 1/2 Feet high. Triangular, toothed leaves
> are thinner than spinach, very nutritious and high in vitamins. The
> tender shoots are used in salads or cooked like spinach. But the
> real surprise is that at each leaf axle there is an abundance of
> sweet, strawberry-like fruits which some say resemble mulberries.
> Will reseed vigorously.
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