Comments on: Malabar spinach: How to grow and care for climbing spinach

By: Marcy

Marcy — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:45:43 +0000

I live in Hawaii

we love Watching the Malabar vines grow and grow. Too much fun to see the vines… I hardly use them in our kitchen,.

By: Shankar Iyee

Shankar Iyee — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:04:46 +0000

In reply to Daphne. In India, we use the leaves with lentils the preperation of which is called Daal. Eaten with rice.

By: Jessica Walliser

Jessica Walliser — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:58:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne. What a clever way to overwinter the plants! You'll have to let us know how they do.

By: Daphne

Daphne — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:52:21 +0000

I grow the red variety of Malabar spinach. Before the first frost last year, I took a few cuttings of the tops of the plants and put them in pots. They’ve been growing as house plants over the winter and actually look fine. They’re just growing in a south-facing window and still flowering.

I intend to put the plants out in the spring and see how they do, in addition to starting more seeds next year. It’s a great plant in the right climate.