Okawakame (Edible Okinawa Spinach) Seedlings, 3 Plants, Pesticide-Free, Chemical Fertilizer-Free, Perennial, Edible Green Curtain!

* Okinawa Spinach Seedlings - 3 Plants (Photo is a sample)

* Once planted, Okinawa spinach can be harvested for life.
It's pest-resistant and can be grown without pesticides.
Enjoy a bountiful harvest of this healthy vegetable from early summer to early winter!

* Magnesium: 8 times that of lettuce
* Copper: 8 times that of cabbage
* Calcium: 6 times that of bell pepper
* Zinc: 2.5 times that of chives

* We will send 3 bare-root seedlings with leaves and roots, grown with fermented fertilizer (no chemical fertilizers or pesticides). The roots will be kept moist with sphagnum moss and shipped via 4th Class Mail (packaging must be transparent).
Due to manual sorting at the post office, 4th Class Mail delivery can take 4-7 days from shipment.
The post office does not deliver regular mail or 4th Class Mail on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
Shipments are generally made on weekdays.

* 4th Class Mail does not include insurance. We cannot be responsible for damage during transit, issues during delivery, or damage due to prolonged exposure in your mailbox after delivery. Please understand this before purchasing. If you are concerned, you can opt for express shipping (additional ￥300). Please let us know in the comments section before purchasing if you wish to do so. We will adjust the price to include express shipping.

* As these are live plants, they grow daily. Some seedlings may have had their tips pruned to encourage branching of the vines.
These are climbing plants, so they can be trained on stakes, fences, or nets. Repeated pruning will encourage branching, allowing them to be used as a sunshade curtain or grown compactly like morning glories in a lantern style. They can also be grown in planters.

* Okinawa spinach is a perennial vine of the Basella family, very easy to grow. In tropical environments, it has lush green leaves year-round. However, in Honshu, where winters are cold, it goes dormant during winter, surviving as tubers or vines, and sprouts again the following spring.
In Honshu, it can be harvested from around May in spring until early winter.
In cold regions with snow and freezing temperatures, dig up the tubers to store them where they won't freeze and plant them when it warms up, or grow them indoors.
In warmer regions without snow, the leaves will fall in winter, but they can be left planted.
* Tubers form underground, and bulbils form in the leaf axils. They have no bitterness, so the leaves can be eaten raw, used in tempura, stir-fries, soups, omelets, or microwaved for ohitashi (blanched greens) or salads. They can also be added to natto. The bulbils can be used to make bulbil rice, tempura, or stir-fries. The bulbils are fluffy and very delicious.

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