🥬 How to Grow Spinach
Spinach is among the fastest cool-season crops from seed to salad. It tolerates light frost and even light snow, making it a spring and fall staple in most gardens.
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Family: Amaranthaceae · Type: Vegetable
Spinach is among the fastest cool-season crops from seed to salad. It tolerates light frost and even light snow, making it a spring and fall staple in most gardens.
Spinach grows as a cool-season annual in Zones 2–9. Spring and fall crops in Zones 5–8; fall through spring in Zones 7–9; winter crop in mild areas.
How to Grow Spinach: Step-by-Step
- Sow densely and thin to final spacing (use thinnings in salads)
- Succession-plant every 2 weeks for continuous harvest
- Provide shade cloth in late spring to delay bolting
- Fall plantings in Zones 6+ can overwinter under row cover
- Harvest outer leaves to extend the season; harvest whole plant when bolting begins
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Zone-by-Zone Growing Guide
Spinach grows as a cool-season annual in Zones 2–9. Spring and fall crops in Zones 5–8; fall through spring in Zones 7–9; winter crop in mild areas.
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