Atriplex hortensis
Garden orache
Common names: Spanish spinach, Red garden orache
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Description
The garden orache is an old leafy vegetable that tastes like a milder spinach and can survive the early summer without bolting. The red‑leaved varieties such as "Rubra" add decorative accents with their wine‑red leaves in the garden bed and in salads. It grows over a meter tall and provides abundant harvest early in the season.
Care instructions
Sow from March directly into the bed; garden orache germinates at cool temperatures. Keep the soil evenly moist and harvest the young leaves continuously from the bottom up. Cut off the first flower heads if you want to extend the harvest period, or leave the plant for self‑sowing.
Soil & site
Soil pH
Soil type
humus-rich, well-drained, nutrient-rich
Feeding
Light feeder
Companion planting
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