Orach Red
$4.90
FAMILY: CHENPODIACEAE
GENUS: Atriplex SPECIES: hortensis
Description
Heritage Status: New Zealand
Bio-Region of Origin: Christchurch
Number of Seeds: 100
Description: A real stunner in the garden and, like the green version, is an ancient vegetable that is highly nutritious. It is one of the seven vegetables remaining in our lives that our ancestors were eating several thousand years ago. This one has magenta leaves. Pinch out growing tips continually and eat as spinach, raw or cooked. Small leaves best raw. Self seeds easily.
Planting Instructions: Spring, direct sow without covering seed. Alternatively plant into trays at 2.5cm diagonal spacing without covering seed. Prick out when the first two leaves appear. Transplant when 6cm high at 30cm diagonal spacing.
