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Malabar Spinach Growing Information: Sowing, Care & Harvest
How to grow Malabar spinach: soil, trellising, starting seed indoors, transplanting or direct sowing after frost, cuttings and harvest.
By Hensley’s Seed Co.
Malabar Spinach - Key Growing Information
SCIENTIFIC NAME:
Basella rubra
CULTURE:
Malabar spinach likes moist, fertile, slightly acidic soil but will put up with poorer ground. Give the vines a trellis. Tip cuttings root easily and can be kept indoors over winter, then planted out the next year or grown on as houseplants. Start seed indoors in flats ¼" deep and ¼" apart, or 3 seeds per cell in 50- or 72-cell flats, 5–6 weeks before planting out. Once frost danger has passed, set plants 6" apart in rows 36" apart, or sow outdoors ¼" deep and 1–2" apart in 36" rows and thin to 6".
DISEASES AND PESTS:
Rotate crops and keep things clean to prevent disease.
HARVEST:
Harvest young leaves and stems all season; pinching the tips makes plants branch.
AVG. DIRECT SEEDING RATE:
About 130' per oz. or 2,100' per lb.
SEED SPECS:
SEEDS/OZ.: about 950 on average.
PACKET:
100 seeds cover about 12'.
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