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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Sparkly on March 11, 2010, 18:25:38

Title: strawberry spinach
Post by: Sparkly on March 11, 2010, 18:25:38
http://www.victoriananursery.co.uk/vegetable_seeds/strawbini_seed_strawberry_spinach/

anyone grow these? any thoughts?

Title: Re: strawberry spinach
Post by: saddad on March 11, 2010, 18:29:31
Yes... not worth it. Grow as a decorative edging plant. The "strawberries" are tasteless and seedy...  but visually the plant has a place...  :)
Title: Re: strawberry spinach
Post by: Vinlander on March 11, 2010, 20:03:23
I agree with Saddad - the 'strawberries' have virtually no flavour or sugar content though they aren't unpleasant if you are thirsty.

Very similar to supermarket fruit in fact (and free) so anyone who actually enjoys (or has got used to) that degree of blandness might find them interesting.

If I remember rightly they look a lot like the red type of lumpfish 'caviare' - so maybe a food-arranging opportunity there if you like that kind of thing...

Not my style though - it's a minor bonus if my fruit & veg look nice when they are growing, but in every other respect the 3 most important things are the flavour, the flavour and the flavour.

Cheers.
Title: Re: strawberry spinach
Post by: aj on March 12, 2010, 09:13:23
Two words;

Don't bother