Hi Stacy, Thanks for offering it. I used to eat this as a kid. I will send you an email. Please check my trade list. Here is a link that might be useful: Trade list

I am growing Malabar spinach - I think I am in zone 7b - North Dallas. I bought one plant - divided it into 2 and have seen it grow and grow. As soon as I pluck leaves for my salad, it grows new branches and shoots. It is prolific. I am growing it in a self watering container that is a gallon in size. It loves my trellis and it tolerates the full Texas sun. Yesterday, I took another piece off to sprout for another container in a shadier place as an experiment. I am interested in seeing if it will be a hardier grower with less sun - since the full sun seems to stunt many of my plants from flowering etc. Right now, I am eating a wonderful red vine malabar salad - with raisins, fresh basil, and walnuts in a red berry dressing. Oh yum!

Just thought I'd let y'all know Merrybookwyrm contacted me has Green Malabar on the way. Also I found some Rat Tail Radish seeds on Johnny's Selected seed site so will be ordering some from there along with row covers. They get four or five ft. tall, but I have no idea what kind of growth habit to expect. Anybody here ever grow them? Here is a link that might be useful: Podding radish ...

Speaking of Malabar spinach, I've grown both the red and green stem and although the red stemmed seems to be more readily available, (maybe because it is more colorful) I liked the green stem variety more. In my experience the leaves were bigger, tastier and it didn't seem to reseed so freely. Has anyone else had experience with both? Some people harvest a whole stem and pull the leaves off, but I usually cut only the leaves off and the stems would sprout more leaves. The leaves are big and shiny and easy to harvest and it doesn't seem like there would be a problem mistaking Hyacinth bean leaves for Malibar spinach leaves, but you might get better production if the Hyacinth vine did not over shadow the Malabar or vice versa. Malabar spinach is GREAT stir fried with olive oil and fresh garlic. Here is a link that might be useful: Green malabar spinach ...