Thank you for your interest in herb plants from MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers. I've closed plant order processing for 2024/5 season. Online orders for plants will open again mid August for pre-orders with plants being shipped from mid September onwards.
Seeds will become available from May.
If you are interested in my Mini Grow & Use Guides, please email me for processing at minette@tonoli.co.nz during the shop's vacation dates.
The physical nursery and gates sales table plant stand is also closed over winter and will be up and running in spring 2025 for the 2025/26 growing season.
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Strawberry Spinach
$6.00
Strawberry Spinach is an ANNUAL growing to 60cm with goosefoot-like leaves, and small, red and pulpy.
It prefers moist soil in full sun.
The fruit, leaves and seeds are edible. It has some medicinal uses.
Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked like spinach. Eat only in small quantities. The fruit has a sweet flavour and can be added to salads.
Red food coloring can be obtained from teh fruit.
It has been used to treat black eyes and head bruises and lung congestion.
It is a dye plant.
