Tetragonia tetragonioides
Not a true spinach! Low growing, wide spreading plant with fleshy, fresh green leaves. It can be used like spinach and eaten either raw or cooked. Germinates unevenly and is slow growing at first but then becomes a vigorous ground cover plant. Frost sensitive. Plants are rarely beset by pests or disease. Raising in a seed bed is recommended.
Sowing instructions
Raise in seed bed end of March till end of April.
Growing instructions
Plant out from mid May.
