GROW.The plant prefers sun and moist soils of average fertility and is a good choice for marginal soils. in the spring, scatter seed on a prepared seedbed, barely cover and tamp. Keep warm and moist. Thin to 6 inches apart.
WHEN TO PLANT.Spring
FEATURE.he younger leaves of Chenopodium giganteum are hairy with a magenta colour and the older become green. The rhombic to ovate formed lamina can have a surface of up to 20 x 16 cm.
USE.The young shoots and leaves of Chenopodium giganteum can be eaten cooked like spinach, another member of the Amaranthaceae.
C. giganteum is an erect annual with red-flushed, green stems, ovate to diamond-shaped, toothed, edible, mid-green leaves, red-flushed when young and, in late summer, terminal spikes of insignificant, green, sometimes red-flushed flowers.Chenopodium giganteum (Tree spinach) will reach a height of 3m and a spread of 0.5m after 1-2 years.Pick young leaves as and when required. Seed will only be worth collecting if growing in warm conditions.Used as edible plant but used as ornamental plant, can grow in tropic, mediterranean, subtropical or temperate climate.
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