robynanne said:I've never heard of that before. How cool! I grow normal spinach and malabar and new zealand. Adding another type could be fun. 
Where did you get it?
I also grow Malabar spinach (Basella), but I give it full morning sun and then afternoon shade. It is a bit too hot here for it to survive the extremely hot afternoon sun, at least in my experience. It is a great plant. It grows from cuttings and from seeds. And I have both the red version and the green version. The green one has HUGE leaves, but the red one grows faster, and the red one seems to be able to handle the hot sun better than the green one.
I want to try the New Zealand spinach next year.
You'll like Egyptian spinach. It is so easy to grow. And fairly tasty. The key is to chop it up finely. Don't try to eat the leaves whole.
Its seed pods look like tiny okras.
It does fine in the ground and it also grows well in pots.
Sadly, it is an annual, and it dies out in the winter, even with no frost. It would be so nice if it would survive the winter, and then when spring came back it would be so big it would instantly produce a huge amount of greens. I wish I could find something like that, that would survive my summer's heat.
