Tree Spinach
Chenopodium giganteum
Standard seed packet, 100 seeds
$1.50
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Tree Spinach
Chenopodium giganteum
- Edible leaves & seeds
- Attractive foliage
Multi-branched shrub with fine hairy leaves which start out magenta and mature to green. Leaves can be harvested and eaten cooked like spinach/silverbeet. Seeds can be cooked like quinoa and eaten or can be dried and ground into flour or used for making bread. Often grown as an ornamental. Tolerant of poor soil conditions
How to sow and grow:
| Method: | Sow direct |
| Sowing Depth: | 5mm |
| When: | Spring and summer |
| Germination: | 21-30 days @ 15-20°C |
| Hardiness / Life Cycle: | Hardy Annual |
| Row Spacing: | 180cm |
| Plant Spacing: | 80cm |
| Plant Height: | 240cm |
| Position: | Part of full sun, moist well drained soil |
| Days to Maturity/Flowering: | 45 days |
(Product number: F5-06)
Seeds per gram: 600 seeds
| SKU | F5-06 |
| Shipping Weight | 0.0006kg |
| Botanical name: | Chenopodium giganteum |
| Packet type: | Standard seed packet |
| Packet quantity: | 100 seeds |
| Seeds per gram: | 600 |
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