http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/05/21/spinach-grows-up/ Daily photo-journal of organic market gardening: growing local food with two acres and some tools...! Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:53:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/05/21/spinach-grows-up/#comment-778 Christa Sat, 26 May 2007 14:07:52 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/05/21/spinach-grows-up/#comment-778 What wonderful spinach you have! I looks so healthy. Mine is really struggling right now. I think it's too hot here for it now. Thanks for the tip about the Bloomsdale variety. What wonderful spinach you have! I looks so healthy. Mine is really struggling right now. I think it’s too hot here for it now. Thanks for the tip about the Bloomsdale variety.

]]> http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/05/21/spinach-grows-up/#comment-766 Mike Wed, 23 May 2007 03:27:31 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/05/21/spinach-grows-up/#comment-766 Hey Sara: Around here, so far, spinach is pretty much a troublefree crop, like lettuce. Nothing eats it, it gets no disease. So, in it goes and then one day...there's spinach! Hope it's the same where you are. Heat of course is not spinach's friend, summer spinach usually means poor germination, need for lots of water, and rapid bolting. I still always try, usually get poor results (unless it's a summer of no sun, like three years ago) and then it comes back for fall. It likes rich, well-composted soil, spinach is a pretty heavy feeder, it eats what it can get. If you like rich, earthy-tasting spinach, try Bloomsdale if you can, it's a well-known open pollinated variety. Taste is very full, and seems to vary a bit with the bed it's grown in. I stick mainly to Bloomsdale and, at the other end of the seed spectrum, Spargo, which is a modern superfast hybrid (40 days) with a nice, mild all-purpose taste. Whenever I get to real seed-saving, I'll likely be growing nothing but Bloomsdale! Hey Sara: Around here, so far, spinach is pretty much a troublefree crop, like lettuce. Nothing eats it, it gets no disease. So, in it goes and then one day…there’s spinach! Hope it’s the same where you are. Heat of course is not spinach’s friend, summer spinach usually means poor germination, need for lots of water, and rapid bolting. I still always try, usually get poor results (unless it’s a summer of no sun, like three years ago) and then it comes back for fall. It likes rich, well-composted soil, spinach is a pretty heavy feeder, it eats what it can get. If you like rich, earthy-tasting spinach, try Bloomsdale if you can, it’s a well-known open pollinated variety. Taste is very full, and seems to vary a bit with the bed it’s grown in. I stick mainly to Bloomsdale and, at the other end of the seed spectrum, Spargo, which is a modern superfast hybrid (40 days) with a nice, mild all-purpose taste. Whenever I get to real seed-saving, I’ll likely be growing nothing but Bloomsdale!

]]> http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/05/21/spinach-grows-up/#comment-761 Sara Tue, 22 May 2007 06:37:13 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/05/21/spinach-grows-up/#comment-761 I have planted spinach for the first time this year - any tips? Sara from farmingfriends I have planted spinach for the first time this year - any tips?
Sara from farmingfriends

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