I grew #strawberry #spinach (Blitum capitatum) aka strawberry blite this year as a bit of an experiment, and I'm finally getting some actual berries on the plants.
I don't think I'll grow this again on purpose (though apparently it reseeds pretty well).
It doesn't function very well as a spinach, or as a berry.
The leaves are thicker than spinach and don't taste particularly great. It's a fine potherb but I have enough of those already.
The berries are bland but also seedy.
It also took a surprisingly long time to take off; I'd started it indoors and then transplanted it in the May. It wasn't until July that it really started growing.
I could be that it's sensitive to transplant, or simply needs a fair bit of heat to get established.
Next year I'm going to try some different hot-weather greens to fill that gap after lettuce has mostly gone to seed.
I've got my eye on some amaranthus varieties, as well as adding Tradescantia virginiana to my edible flower collection, and perhaps some a lamb's quarter cultivar, and/or Plantago major cultivar.
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Dan 🦺 Deboer
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