This odd-duck plant goes by many names — Ceylon spinach, Indian spinach and vine spinach, among them — but isn't technically a spinach at all. But don't say that in front of Basella alba — the ...

Gardeners looking for an edible ornamental vine have a dandy in Malabar spinach. Malabar spinach develops into a strikingly beautiful vine that forms a backdrop for a garden room when trained to a ...

Widely used in southeast Asian cooking, Malabar spinach is a quick-growing tropical vine that can easily reach 10 feet in length. The leaves are thicker than spinach leaves, with an almost succulent ...

Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports MALABAR ...

Here are 5 tips on how to grow spinach - the climbing type commonly called Malabar or Ceylon spinach. This type of spinach is ...

If you’ve ever tried growing lettuce (Lactuca sativa), true spinach (Spinacia oleracea), or crops in the cabbage family (Brassica spp.) during summertime in the subtropics of Florida, you know that ...

In the last of the series on hot summer plants, let’s look at some tropical and subtropical greens that could become your new summer garden favorite. Fresh summer greens at the height of the summer ...

Question: Our spring vegetable garden is filled with lettuce, arugula, spinach and many other salad greens, but by the time summer rolls around, they always go to seed and leave us without salads for ...

This is the month when lots of shrubs and trees are beginning to bloom and some will reach full bloom — such as deciduous magnolias — if they haven’t already. This is an easy month for starting a ...