Home Grown Malabar Spinach From My Garden

We are now blessed with fresh and tender home grown Malabar Spinach from my garden. Both the sun and rain has contributed to the growth of the seedlings into healthy plants. Not everyone is a fan of this Malabar Spinach but I am used to eating this leafy vegetable since a young kid. Those days, we have the Malabar Spinach vines growing on the fences and it was a standby supply of green vegetable for the table whenever needed.

One day while watering my plants, I noticed a small plant growing next to a flower pot and it looked like a Malabar Spinach plant. Eh! How did the plant get to grow by itself? The last time I planted Malabar Spinach was about a year ago and you can click here to read the post. Did a single seed remained dormant in the ground until it decided to sprout after almost 2 years later? Or maybe a flying stork decided to drop a little seed into my garden!

 Anyway, I decided to let it grow and trained the vine up the support so that I might collect some seeds for future sowing. Watching the vine climb up the support reminded me of the "Jack and the beanstalk" story. Tiny white flowers appeared and then turned to green and later to black seeds.

Every morning I collected the black seeds from the vine.

Seeds collected from the vine. Some are purplish black. Those collected earlier were the dried wrinkled ones. 

 I then sowed some of the seeds using a black plastic bag and a pot. 

The seeds have sprouted into healthy plants.

 Can you see a self-propagated Cleome seedling growing in the midst of the Malabar Spinach?

You can also see some self-propagated Wishbone flower seedlings growing here.

These 2 containers combined is enough for a plate of green for us.

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The following flowers from my garden are for joining Floral Bliss.

Tiny Crown of Thorns flowers

Yellow Dancing Ladies orchid flowers.

Wild tiny white flowers with yellow centre.

Linking with Floral Bliss.

The night is far gone, the day of his return will soon be here.

So quit the evil deeds of darkness and put on the armor of right living,

as we who live in the daylight should!

Be decent and true in everything you do so that all can approve your behavior.

Don't spend your time in wild parties and getting drunk or

in adultery and lust or fighting or jealousy.

(Romans 13:12-13, The Living Bible-TLB)