Rote Gartenmelde

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Description

Before the advent of spinach in Europe very common leafy vegetables. Tasty and spicy. The leaves can be harvested continuously. With red leaf color very decorative. Garden meadow, also called garden meadow, Spanish lettuce, Spanish spinach and orache, is a plant species in the foxtail family. It is one of the oldest cultivated plants and is or was used as a vegetable, salad, medicinal, dyeing as well as ornamental plant. self-seeding The dark red plant, which grows up to 2 m high, is an ancient salad and cooking vegetable that has been displaced by new varieties of spinach. Sowing: From March - June 1-2 cm deep. Follow-up sowing possible every 4 weeks. Harvest: The too dense seedlings and later the young leaves and shoot tips as salad or steamed like spinach. Use the individual leaves before flowering like leaf spinach. Our tip: Melde is easy to grow. It tastes milder than spinach because it lacks oxalic acid. It contains vitamin C, B1 and fiber. Mixed culture tip: Good green manure, like spinach a saponin donor. Always good as an intercrop or mixed crop.

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Details

Light requirement

Shady

Water requirement

Very humid

Soil

Light (sandy)

Nutrient requirement

Medium

Seeding distance

5 cm

Row spacing

40 cm

Seeding depth

2 cm