What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. We are talking about some

interesting plants today and when I say plants I actually really mean plant. One

singular plant I think you should consider growing it's sitting outside of my

front yard raised bed right now it's the strawberry spinach also known in its Latin name as Blitum Capitatum.

It's an edible plant, obviously, it's an annual plant.

It's also known by Goosefoot, Indian paint, Indian ink. It is not actually spinach.

But it has a taste that is somewhat similar to spinach, which is why it has that name.

But what's interesting about this plant is that you can use the greens for sure.

You can eat them raw, put them in a salad.

Although if you eat them raw, here's something interesting, they do contain

oxalates, which means that you should eat them in moderation if you eat them raw.

I would personally recommend sautaying them with a little

butter or something like that. Probably a better choice. But what's

interesting is that the this plant is a green that produces a fruit.

It produces a small, bright red, edible fruit,

and that's how it gets its name

Strawberry spinach because you can eat the greens and it also produces a little fruit.

It's a red fruit nice and juicy.

In fact in the Native American days they used it as a red dye it was one of the the ways that they colored things and so what's interesting about this plant is just simply that you can do both with it right there's a very few

greens that produce a fruit that where you can also eat the greens and you

would actually want to do both right because a lot of the times something

might be edible but you may not want to eat it.

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