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Red Orach (Atriplex hortensis)
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vegetable variety.
The orach generally belongs to the old vegetable varieties or also to the rediscovered vegetable rarities. There's documentary proof of its cultivation in the Central European region as early as around 800 AC in the bequest of Charlemagne and slightly later also with Hildegard von Bingen.
What's harvested is the leaves that can either be eaten raw as a salad or boiled like spinach. With its entry into the vegetable garden in the 16th century, spinach was substantially involved in why orach has been forgotten. Nevertheless, its leaves taste more tender and milder and it's much more vigorous and more fertile.
The orach doesn't only appeal to the kitchen but is also quite noteworthy as a medicinal plant, dye plant, and biomass supplier.
The orach generally belongs to the old vegetable varieties or also to the rediscovered vegetable rarities. There's documentary proof of its cultivation in the Central European region as early as around 800 AC in the bequest of Charlemagne and slightly later also with Hildegard von Bingen.
What's harvested is the leaves that can either be eaten raw as a salad or boiled like spinach. With its entry into the vegetable garden in the 16th century, spinach was substantially involved in why orach has been forgotten. Nevertheless, its leaves taste more tender and milder and it's much more vigorous and more fertile.
The orach doesn't only appeal to the kitchen but is also quite noteworthy as a medicinal plant, dye plant, and biomass supplier.
Details: Plant description & care
Sowing & cultivation
- Sowing period: As early as possible outdoors when the soil is still open. This is mostly the case from March. Until August, you can resow monthly.
- Sowing depth: 1-2 cm in rows or broadcast. Only work in flat.
- Ideal germination temperature: The orach already germinates at very low temperatures.
- Row spacing: 40 cm
- Planting distance: 35 x 15 cm
- Location: Loves sunny locations but also tolerates half-shade
- Soil: The orach is very undemanding and prospers on all soils, even on salty ones.
- Care: Needs little nutrients, likes it continuously moist. Regular hoeing of the seedlings promotes growth
- Harvest: 3-5 weeks after sowing if the plants have reached a minimum height of 20-30 cm by then. Either harvest the complete plant or pluck single leaves when the plant is larger. During the heyday, the plant loses taste and the leaves turn coarser. By cutting back radically to the lowest leaves, new growth can be forced and a new harvest is possible after approximately 4 weeks.
Once plucked, the leaves only last a few hours until they wilt. Therefore, they should be consumed very fast. Alternatively, the leaves of the orach can be frozen like spinach. - Family: Amaranths (Amaranthaceae)
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- Item number
- ATR04
- Brand
- Magic Garden Seeds
- Group:
- Seeds
- kultivierungsschwierigkeitsgrad:
- einfach
- Seed quantity:
- 200 Pcs.
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