2020 seeds for you?

[elainegrey]

I've Baker Creek Strawberry Spinach (Chenopodium capitatum) and extra Baker Creek Salad Burnet seeds. The Strawberry spinach wasn't robust enough for this climate. The Salad burnet is doing just fins, but there's only so much i can use. Might be more interesting in alkaline soil than in my acidic clay.

Also, Tronchuda or Portuguese kale - https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/kale/tronchuda-kale -- if the plants take off this spring i'll have plenty. If the plants go to seed, well i am growing them hoping they will be perennial. And if they are freeze killed, sigh.

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[amaebi]

I've never tried to grow strawberry spinach (the same as Malabar spinach?). I never had trouble with salad burnet in acid soil nor in alkaline soil, FWIW.

[elainegrey]

Strawberry spinach, Blitum capitatum, is related to spinach, so there's that. It's native to Colorado. Baker Seeds says "Native to moist mountain valleys of North America" so i assumed the Appalachians -- but the USDA https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CHCA4 doesn't have it native to anywhere in the south east. I realized that after they didn't do so well.