Damn... I was kind of hoping they'd be a roaring success, that you'd have 6 x twenty foot high spinach plants by now, constantly producing huge tasty leaves and many a seed to share among your fellow Powerswitchers!Sally wrote:Tragically not a one germinated.Erik wrote:Time to revive this thread methinks! I want to know what happened to the Caucasian Spinach thing, and in particular, the six tiny seeds that Sally had. Did they grow? Have they put the rest of the garden in the shade?Renewable Candy wrote: And now for something completely different: Caucasian Spinach (Hablitzia Tamnoides) as featured in Permaculture Mag. (No. 52 in the summer), popular in Scandanavia:
http://www.henriettesherbal.com/picture ... noides.htm
Looks so indestructible I might be able to grow it. Anybody know where I can get hold of the seeds? I've even tried Russia...
'Emergency crops'?
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