Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a very useful crop to sow in the garden, as it settles in partially shaded positions and has a very long growing season: it can populate flower beds at different times of the year. , from spring to winter, because they resist frost very well.
The plant bolts to seed at the end of its growth cycle, but when kept in the garden for vegetables, it is harvested before forming a flower. If you want to get the spinach seeds, you have to let them form the stems from the center of the head and let the pollination take place. In very hot weather, spinach suffers and tends to hasten the flowering process.
It pays to learn the correct time and how to plant this horticultural plant, so you can learn how to do it and start growing spinach the right way.
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The right time to plant spinach
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how to sow
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Indicated sixth of the installation
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soil preparation
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The best time to plant spinach
Spinach is a vegetable whose sowing period is incredibly long, because it is very resistant to cold. It germinates at temperatures of 12 degrees and does well when the thermometer reads 15, it has a fairly quick cycle, coming to harvest in just 45 or 60 days from sowing. For these characteristics, the ideal is to plant spinach in the spring, with the aim of harvesting it before summer, or to plant it after the heat of summer for an autumn or winter harvest.
The best months for sowing are therefore March, April and May, then August, September and October. Weather permitting, it can also be sown in February and November, while in cool areas in June and July.
In which moon is it sown
Spinach being a leafy vegetable that must be harvested before going to seed, it should theoretically be sown on the waning moon, this should delay the formation of flowers and seeds, in favor of the leaves.
Following the moon in planting has been an established tradition in agriculture for centuries, but there is no scientific evidence, so anyone can decide to follow the phases of the moon or plant spinach without looking at the moon.
how to sow
The spinach seed is not big but not small either, it is a small ball that you can easily put in individually. A gram of seed can contain a hundred seeds.
Theoretically, spinach can be placed either in the seedbed or in the ground, but direct seeding is generally preferable, which saves a lot of time, as no special attention is needed to protect the plants from damage. possible cold nights.
The planting operation begins with the preparation of the soil, which we will detail later. To accommodate the seeds, it must be well leveled and adjusted with a hoe and a rake. In the seedbed we will trace the furrows, the seed should be about 1.5 cm deep, so a shallow trace is sufficient. Then we put the seeds in the furrow at the right distance, we can help ourselves with a sheet of paper folded in half, then close by packing the earth on the seeds by pressing on them with our hands.
Once the planting is finished, it is necessary to water, an operation that will be repeated constantly until the plants are well formed.