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Strawberry Spinach, also known as Indian paint... native to North America and grown in European gardens since the 1600s. 🌱🍓
A fast-growing, cold-tolerant annual, this plant thrives in sun, readily self-seeds, and returns year after year, making it a low-maintenance edible and ornamental favorite.
Valued for its multi-purpose harvest, it produces mild, spinach-like leaves— rich in vitamins a and c - best eaten young and raw in salads or cooked as a potherb, along with bright red, berry-like fruits that are soft, dark red, and succulent with a subtle, sweet flavor.
Archaeologists have found caches of Strawberry Spinach seeds numbering in the millions at several Great Basin sites. The volume found in hearths and storage pits often exceeds what would be expected for a casual snack! It is thought these sites were for producing dye as the plant contains betalain (the same pigmant as beetroot!) To overcome the natural instability of betalains, natural bonding agents such as plant ash were used to 'fix' and enhance the dye produced.
Strawberry Spinach, also known as Indian paint... native to North America and grown in European gardens since the 1600s. 🌱🍓
A fast-growing, cold-tolerant annual, this plant thrives in sun, readily self-seeds, and returns year after year, making it a low-maintenance edible and ornamental favorite.
Valued for its multi-purpose harvest, it produces mild, spinach-like leaves— rich in vitamins a and c - best eaten young and raw in salads or cooked as a potherb, along with bright red, berry-like fruits that are soft, dark red, and succulent with a subtle, sweet flavor.
Archaeologists have found caches of Strawberry Spinach seeds numbering in the millions at several Great Basin sites. The volume found in hearths and storage pits often exceeds what would be expected for a casual snack! It is thought these sites were for producing dye as the plant contains betalain (the same pigmant as beetroot!) To overcome the natural instability of betalains, natural bonding agents such as plant ash were used to 'fix' and enhance the dye produced.