Spinach is easy to grow and produces a generous crop of leaves that are not only delicious but also high in vitamin content. Excellent in salad, soufflés, stuffing or as a cooked green.
Sowing: Spinach is a fast growing cool-weather spring and fall crop. Select sunny location, cultivate and fertilize with vegetable food. Plant in spring as soon as soil can be worked, repeating every 2 weeks until weather warms. Continue in late summer. Sow seed sparingly, firming soil over row.
Care: Thin first to 3" then to 6". Use thinnings in salad.
Harvest: Cut outer leaves when 6-8" long, leaving center to form new leaves.
Your Health: Rich in Calcium, Iron, and Vitamins A, B1, B2, Niacin.
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FROM OUR SEED CATALOG:
- (OP) The large, 6”-8” long, dark-green, glossy leaves are not only delicious but high in vitamins. Produces a cool weather crop that resists bolting. 44 days.
2,800 s./oz. 15 lbs./acre.
More information:
Planting
- Depth
| Seed
Spacing
| Spacing
between
Rows
| Days to
Germination
| Spacing
after
Thinning
| Days to
Maturity
| 1/2" /
13 mm
| 1" /
3cm | 12" /
30 cm | 7-14 | 5-6" /
13-15 cm | 45-70 |
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