Re: Orach
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Orach
- From: J* B*
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:05:25 -0500
- References: <dde56fad.24d8b589@aol.com>
Ha - all this this talk about orach, and nobody has asked - has anybody ate
it before, and does it taste like spinach? Cajun
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> << It's an old timey vegetable plant. It's also called Mountain Spinach
and
> other things. To say it self-seeds freely is an understatement. The red
> orach grows to about 3 and a half feet here in sw Idaho, >>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I thought after writing my piece that orach was probably the wrong moniker
so
> I looked in the books. It is offically atriplex hortensis.
>
> If Margaret is snowed under by her kind offer, Thompson and Morgan list
this
> plant.
>
> Another large supplier of mail order herb seeds and plants, is the
Canadian
> "Richter's"
>
> Richter's Herb Catalogue
> Goodwood, Ontario
> LOC1AO, Canada (need two stamps for Canada)
>
> orderdesk@richters.com
>
> www.richters.com
>
> I have grown orach in the past cutting it off at about twelve inches
> repeatedly to keep it bushy. Four or five plants in the same hole is
helpful
> also.
>
> This was part of my affair with grey leaved and purple leaved plants. I
> still love them all. I am currently hoping that euphobia 'Chameleon'
will
> overwinter for me
> Any more purple leaved info would be a nice discussion.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> East Nassau, NY
> z4
>
