How To Grow Spinach?

Spinach  can be sow in the late spring, summer, and early fall. Spinach's time to harvest is between six to twelve weeks and spinach can be harvest all summer and fall.

Spinach can be harvested  young and used in salads or allowed to mature. for cooking. Spinach is a crop that is very easy to grow. The seeds can be sow in short drills.

1. Getting Started

Spinach will grow in cool weather and they need a shady site to grow in. They will grow in containers  and beds. In a container I will need to plant twenty to forty-five plants. It does not matter where I plant my spinach the soil has to be very rich, well-drained and it needs to be some organic matter added to the soil such as manure or compost the season before growing.

2. Sowing Outside

Spinach is sown directly into the soil in the garden, or in a containers or window boxes. Because I am planting directly into the soil, the plants are less likely to bolt on me. To get my soil ready for my spinach, and rake it level. Next step, I will need to make a drill 3/4 inches deep and eight inches apart, and water the soil real good. Put seeds directly 1/2 inch apart along your drill, then cover with soil, gently firm down, and water in well.

3. Watering

Spinach is a very thirsty fast-growing crop, so I will need to water spinach very generously and very often so my spinach will be sustain. Because I am growing spinach in very, hot dry weather, I will need to water my spinach once a day. I will need to keep the weeds out of your spinach, so the weeds will not take away the moisture from my spinach. I am using a hoe to keep the weeds out of my spinach plants.

4. Routine Care

After I have got my spinach planted, then routine care comes now. A net would need to be put over my plants to keep the birds away. Another problem can be downy mildew, bit if you have this problem there is resistant varieties available for you to use. Crops will benefit if they have high-nitrogen granular fertilizer such as pelleted poultry manure or they can give them a regular dose of a high nitrogen liquid feed.

5. Cutting Salad Leaves

Spinach can be harvested as a salad leaf when it is small,  cut it when the leaf gets bigger. The best way to cut the spinach leaves is by using scissors. They can be cooked as a milder-tasting, tender leaf than the ones that are from mature plants. The leaves need to be cut as soon as they are ready, and they need to  be used promptly, so they will not spoil.

6. Harvesting

If I want my spinach to grow larger, then I will need to leave them ten to twelve weeks after sowing cut all the leaves off about one inch above the base, and discard all of the yellow ones if my spinach has them. After I harvested the spinach rows, if I keep them well fed and watered, I should get a smaller flush of leaves in two weeks, and they can be harvested again. After this it is best to discard the plants. Eventually, dig the plants up whole, and strip the leaves.