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Ruby Red Orach Organic Specialty Green Seed — purple orach bed
Atriplex hortensis

A seed worth growing

Ruby Red Orach Organic Specialty Green Seed

Item #HSC-GRN-036-PKT

A purple green that handles summer heat.

Ruby Red has deep purple leaves with a spinach-like taste and keeps growing through warm weather when spinach bolts.

A few plants in each sowing may come up all green.

About 28 days to baby leaf and 40 days to full size. Open-pollinated, certified organic seed.

Specs

  • Packet: 175 seeds
  • Average 7,200 seeds per oz.

In stock — Packet

$6.80

Know before you sow

Quick Facts

Seed size & germination
Seed size (10 mm scale) and germination soil temperature chart for orach

Growing times vary with weather, soil and local conditions.

Growing guide

From seed to harvest

Sow spring to midsummer

1/4" deep.

Thin to 6–10"

Rows 18–30" apart.

Pick from 1' tall

More leaves follow.

Heat or cold

Tolerates both.

Growing Information

Scientific name

Atriplex hortensis

Timing

Takes both heat and cold. Sow from early spring into midsummer.

Sowing

Space seeds 1–2" apart, 1/4" deep, in rows 18–30" apart, then thin to 6–10".

Soil

Any garden soil that drains well.

Harvest

Pick once plants are about 1' tall; new young leaves keep coming.

Disease

Rotate crops and keep beds clean.

Packet

175 seeds.

Seeds per oz.

About 7,200 on average.

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