Orach Seeds

Grow Orach seeds and grow some beautiful herb plants for an edible landscape. Atriplex hortensis, commonly referred to as Garden Orache, Red Orach, Mountain Spinach, or French Spinach, is a hardy, annual herb plant that grows upright up to 24-72 inches tall depending on where it is grown and the variety.
The leaves are variously shaped, but somewhat oblong, comparatively thin in texture, and slightly acid to the taste. The flowers are small and obscure, greenish or reddish, corresponding in a degree with the color of the foliage of the herb plant.
Orach is a cool season plant, but it does not bolt as quickly as regular spinach.
The leaves can be harvested longer into the summer without any bitter taste, and they are used as salad greens or cooked.

Sow the seeds in the spring as early as the soil can be worked. Thinly cover the herb seeds and keep them moist.
Sow seeds 2 inches apart and in rows 12 to 18 inches apart. Thin the young plants when they are 6 inches in height, leaving 12 to 18 inches for spacing. The thinned plants can be eaten. Harvest the young leaves like spinach.

3289 Purple Passion Orach ( Mountain Spinach )

30 Days. Purple Passion Orach also known as Purple Mountain Spinach has 3 times more Vitamin A than normal spinach. It is also very tasty and easy to grow. Purple Passion Spinach can grow up to six feet tall, with beautiful purplish-red leaves, and can be used in place of traditional spinach or chard. Also superb in salads or cooked as a green.

IP216 Magenta Magic Orach ( Mountain Spinach )

Incredible iridescent fuchsia leaves, unlike any other salad component, Montana heirloom.
This is the deepest, darkest red of all the orach varieties available. It has true magenta red coloration that makes it a lively addition to any salad.
Picked young it is tender and some salad mix growers are finding it to be an indispensable item in their market mix.
This slightly spicy upright growing plant holds its flavor even as the plants mature. Miners would traditionally eat secondary orach leaves in salads even as the plants went to seed. Holds its flavor well through summer heat. This is the deepest, darkest red of all the orach varieties available.
It has true magenta red coloration that makes it a lively addition to any salad. Picked young it is tender and some salad mix growers are finding it to be an indispensable item in their market mix. This slightly spicy upright growing plant holds its flavor even as the plants mature. Holds its flavor well through summer heat.