New Zealand Spinach / Malabar Spinach - Tetragonia tetragonioides- Vegetable - 50 Seeds herbs

New Zealand Spinach / Malabar Spinach - Tetragonia tetragonioides- Vegetable - 50 Seeds herbsNot a true spinach. It provides a large amount of leaves for salads and cooked greens in mid summer. Once it is established it is vigorous and trouble free. The flavour is better if the plants have some shade from the sun. Pick the leaves and young shoots of this trailing plant regularly to lengthen the harvest. New Zealand Spinach is perennial in mild winters. Quite difficult to germinate so the seeds need to be soaked in warm water to soften the

Does well in shady dry conditions

Growing 12cm to 25cm with blue-purple/yellow flowers in winter-spring

The Kavango variety is a very reliable and vigorous cultivar

green bracts

The greens are also good

Flowers open in the afternoons

Yellow figs are borne singly or in pairs

Water well with a fine spray

Peony poppies are easy to grow flowers that cheer-up and add spark to even the most bland of gardens

Easter Egg Blend II gives you pink and white fruits as well as the classic ruby-hued variety

The general appearance of this species is of rounded forms dotted or grouped

20–40 mm long and 10–15 mm wide