Malabar spinach is an edible plant and the leaves can be cooked or used raw.

Growing Malabar spinach

Quite different from the regular spinach variety but packed with nutrition

One of the joys of gardening is to try growing and using new plants. Sometimes we stumble upon a new plant quite by accident, as my wife and I did this past June. We were camping near Sydney, Manitoba and took a drive through nearby Austin where we came upon a greenhouse operation. It was