Basella alba (Asian spinach, malabar spinach)

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Dear Basella alba, you are an awesome spinach. 

Its 8c outside, I just cut the last of what I call tender annuals. I drag basella alba inside and some sweet potato slips, because ...just I can't leave them frosted outside.

Inspired by Telsing, I will plant sweet potato next year. Yahoo!... That's decided. Hurray to sweet potatoes. It will be in the ground and in the tubs, and everywhere.

http://asterlanedibles.ca/1/post/2015/01/veg-staple-sweet-potato.html

Basella rubra (Alugbati, Ceylon spinach)

April 4, 2013
Ottawa City, Ontario, Canada.

Last year, I planted these alugbati (this is what we call it in my hometown -Cebu, Philippines), Malabar spinach, Philippine spinach. It did well, and probably I will do it again this year. The stir fries, the salad and the neighbors who love the fresh bite.

Here are the collections of photos of my Basella rubra at different stages of its growth.

basella rubra in peat pellets around june 2012

basella rubra moved to a 4 inch pots

september - the little fruit which will eventually turn purple, then dry out for seeds