Despite the name, Malabar spinach has little in common with Popeye’s favorite green. Unlike true spinach, Malabar spinach is a summer salad; this jungle vine gains strength as the temperature rises.

Spinach is a fantastic cool-season crop that is easy to plant and even easier to harvest. But harvesting at the right time is key, as the leafy green will wilt under the hot summer sun. To help you ...

This leafy green is easy to cultivate. Not only great in salads, spinach is a cold-hardy leafy green perfect for growing in your garden. Because it prefers moderate temperatures, spinach does ...

Malabar spinach might be the most amazing thing you’re not growing. Yes, really. Let’s start at the beginning. “Malabar spinach” isn’t even really a spinach, it’s a semi-succulent vine that just loves ...

Spinach is a cool-season crop. Plant seeds when the soil temperature reaches 40°F. Begin harvesting standard varieties in 30 to 45 days and baby spinach at 25 to 30 days. Remove outside leaves for a ...

You may have never heard of red Malabar spinach or basella alba ‘rubra’, but this beautiful multi-coloured, leafy vine is part of some very enticing meals in Bengali, South Indian, Gujarati, Chinese, ...

Spinach also has antioxidants, flavonoids, and phytochemicals that protect your cells from oxidative stress and damage from free radicals. You’ll get vitamin C, chlorophyll, and beta-carotene from ...

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – Lindsey du Toit is on a mission to save American spinach seeds. Her greenhouse at Washington State University’s Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center ...

You can find them in your salad at the Sierra Grill. You can find them in puffy plastic “Kitchen Harvest” packages in the Treasure Island store at Clark and Elm. They look like premium-priced spinach ...

Remove outside leaves for a cut-and-come-again harvest or take the entire plant and try for a second harvest. Spinach is a cool-weather, spring green and often the earliest ready for harvest. Packed ...