Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

homestead - [Homestead] Calaloo

homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Homestead mailing list

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Calaloo
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:13:19 -0400

or Vegetable Amaranth or Jamaican Spinach. I got some seeds of this
from my aunt who got them from a Jamaican friend. It looks a lot like
pigweed, probably a variation on it. Anyway, it's a great green for
the heat. Once it gets started, it's probably going to be a bit of a
problem with self seeding, but at least it's a weed I can eat.

I like it a lot, kind of like a strong spinach flavor, I eat the
stalks and all. Just prune it back,e at the prunings and with water it
comes right back.

Here is a site with a picture like what I'm growing. Most of the
searches I pulled are not the same thing.

http://www.eternalnursery.com/callaloo.html

Anyway, frost is not in the picture for the next week or so here, but
I'm saving seeds of Calaloo. The seeds are tiny and a few will do you.
Anyone want some? If so, I'll save extras. I'll trade for hollyhock
seeds, flower or vegetable seeds.

Rob - Va




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page