Anyone grown salsola ?

[Gadfium]

Has anyone any tips on growing these, spacing etc?

I thought I'd killed the seed by putting it in a fridge, because it went soggy.  So I sowed half the packet in the greenhouse, to check. 

Five days later, I threw out a dead millipede that appeared on top of the seedtray... only to realise, in retrospect,  that this was the germinating plant  :-[ . Oops.

So I now have three dozen extremely weird & wonderful looking green lampost-like 'things' pricked out into modules...

The question is, what next... ?

[Gadfium]

[Svea]

i had to google for it:
http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/may/papr/tweed.html

cant help with your questions though.
svea

[redimp]

Having read Svea's link a question of my own arises - why are you growing it?

[johcharly]

the same thought occured to me!

[Gadfium]

I read this, and though it sounded nice...

Liscari sativa (Salsola soda)

Salsola has a beautiful 'candelabra' shape and crisp, crunchy thin leaves. The whole plant is simply gathered in bunches when small and either boiled and eaten as a vegetable. Raw, it makes a really good addition to salads, slightly salty and crunchy.  Our original seed came from Italy, but also popular in Japan, where it is used for soups. An easy plant to grow, and a great addition to the vegetable garden. Delicious, it is rarely available commercially because good seed is so hard to find.

[Doris_Pinks]

I tried last year, and I got.............nothing, nada, rien, not one plant! :'(    I lie a little, I manged to get 3 to germinate, 2 died and a cat cra**pped on the third! Did a second sowing and had equally bad results, sorry :-\