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🥬 Spinach

Spinacia oleracea

Spinach loves cool weather: sow in March-May and again in August-September for two harvest seasons. Summer sowings bolt to seed before producing anything.

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☀️ Partial shade💧 Watering: regular❄️ Hardy to -10 °C🌱 Annual🍽️ Edible

When to sow spinach?

Direct sowing outdoors is done in March, April, May, August and September.

When to harvest spinach?

Harvest spinach in April, May, June, September, October and November.

The tips that matter

  • Pick leaf by leaf without uprooting the plant — it regrows for weeks.
  • A late-summer sowing (August-September) overwinters and crops again early in spring.
  • Keep the soil cool with mulch: spinach bolts as soon as it goes thirsty.

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