Spinach
Strawberry spinach
Strawberry spinach: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Strawberry spinach is Blitum capitatum, also known by the botanical name Chenopodium capitatum. It is an annual in the Amaranthaceae family, related to ordinary spinach but belonging to another genus. Its name evokes two uses: edible spinach-like leaves and small red fruits whose appearance suggests strawberries. It is not a cross between spinach and a strawberry plant.The plant grows upright with green leaves shaped like triangles or arrowheads. It can reach around 60 cm, sometimes more depending on conditions and selection. This outline differs from a low spinach rosette. Stems carry foliage and then groups of flowers and fruits, producing a vegetable that is both leafy and decorative.Flowers are very small, pale to greenish, clustered along stems in summer. They are followed by conspicuous red groups. This succession gradually changes the plant's colour. The small juicy structures resemble strawberries in colour and appearance, but belong to strawberry spinach's own botanical…
