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'Vegetable Mallow ' Spinach
 
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Description: Not a spinach but a tender mallow used like spinach as a cooked green leaf vegetable. Early and easy plant looks like an upright weed. Direct seed early spring to mid-summer.
Days To Maturity: 50
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Reviewed on 07/24/2009 by GarlicGrower - An experienced gardener

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Tompkins, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

I haven't actually grown this. I'm just helping out previous reviewer with image upload.
 

Reviewed on 07/21/2009 by YorkerJenny - An intermediate gardener

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Onondaga, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

Thanks to SandHillPreservation.com that we still have a chance to grow this wonderful almost forgotten veggie. It's very easy to grow, don't bother yourself by starting inside. When the leaves are big enough, just cut them, don't pull the whole plant, so they can produce new leaves. I ate one leaf as fresh to see if I can use in salad. I really didn't get any taste. But when it's cooked, excellent taste, aroma and texture. It reminds me okra taste and texture. If you love okra, you'll love this vegetable. My simple recipe is (saute chopped onion and ground beef with oil and salt) then add vegetable mallow leaves, tomato paste, water, very little rice. p.s.: I also have a kind of wild plant growing every year in backyard. The leaves are very similiar. But I don't know if that is also mallow and edible. I don't wanna try because I'm not professional to determine the plants.
 




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