New Zealand spinach

Like Malabar spinach, New Zealand spinach is a great way to enjoy a tender green even in the heat of summer, when regular spinach doesn't grow well. In the warmest regions of the country, it can be grown as a perennial, but in most regions it grows best as a warm-season annual.

Its flavor is similar than regular spinach but a little milder. The plant grows quite differently from regular spinach. Instead of forming a bunch, New Zealand spinach branches and spreads like a vine. Harvest the interesting triangular medium green leaves and silvery expanding leaves and then use exactly as you would spinach -- raw in salads, sauted, or cooked.

Light:

Sun

Plant Type:

Vegetable

Plant Height:

1-2 feet tall

Plant Width:

1-3 feet wide