If you are looking to enhance your garden with a unique leafy green, consider the vibrant and fast-growing Malabar Spinach. This warm-weather plant is originally from Asia and thrives in high temperatures, making it an excellent choice for summer gardens where it’s generally too hot to grow leafy greens.
Our red stem and green stem Malabar Spinach seed mix offers you the best of both worlds. Easily cultivated, these seeds produce lush, succulent leaves that are not only delicious but also packed with nutrients. While not a true spinach, it’s a great spinach substitute in taste and usage and grows extremely well during the heat of summer.
By choosing to buy Malabar spinach seeds, you’re opting for a fast-growing, high-yield plant ideal for a variety of culinary uses. Whether you use it fresh in salads or cooked in stir-fries, you’ll appreciate the delightful flavors and health benefits it brings to your meals.
Growing Tips: Malabar Spinach, also known as Climbing Spinach, does best when trellised or grown along a fence, away from other garden vegetables. It also grows best in fertile, consistently moist, and well-drained soil in full sun, but will tolerate partial shade. If the soil is allowed to dry out often or the spinach is inconsistently watered, it will go to seed.
Seeds can be started indoors 4-6 weeks before your last frost date, but there’s no need if grown in a warm climate. Mechanical scarification and soaking the seeds in water overnight before planting can speed up germination, if desired.
Family: Spinacea oleracea
Grow Type: Annual in USDA Zones 7-9; Perennial in USDA Zones 10-11
Frost Hardy: No
Days to Harvest: 70-85
Our Grow Process: Non-Isolated (Open-Pollinated)
Plant Size: 6-10′, vining, trellis recommended
Planting Date: After the last frost
Seed Depth: 1/2″
Row Spacing: 12″ apart
Avg. Sprout Time: 10-21 days
Exposure/Ideal Temp: Full sun (will tolerate partial shade), 70-90 degrees Fahrenheit
Variety Origin: India
Seed Amount: 10+
