More people need to know about this. Malabar spinach is delicious, nutritious and grows fast. I have been experimenting with different kinds of edible plants that can be grown indoors in water. Malabar spinach seems to have the most potential by far of any of the plants I have tried so far. Sure, it is ideal to have a variety of different plants on hand to eat, but this one meets all of my demands:
Really good tasting
Attractive
Nutritious
Easy and fast to grow and propagate
Resistant to bugs, etc.
Grown from seed, it takes Malabar spinach about 70 days to mature (I almost threw my first seeds away because it was almost a month before they sprouted in my Easy Sprout gadget), but once my first plant was big enough to harvest, this cutting rooted in plain water in exactly 10 days:
So now I have zillions of them. In fact, Phase One of my Malabar Spinach experiment is almost finished and I can hardly wait to write it up.