vegetable
Spinach
Bolts in heat. Sow the moment the soil can be worked, and again in late summer for fall.
- Sun
- Sun to part shade
- Spacing
- 4–6 in
- Days
- 37–50
- Zones
- 3a–10a
How to sow
The moment the soil can be worked, and again in late summer. It hates heat.
Harvest
Cut baby leaves or wait for a rosette. Bolting means you wait for fall.
Mistakes that waste a packet
- Sowing in June in the Midwest
- Letting the seedbed dry at germination
Three packets
Bloomsdale
BeginnerSavoyed leaves, old variety, still the one to beat.
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Related
Tomatoes
Start indoors. Match days-to-maturity to the weeks you actually have after last frost.
Peppers
Need more heat and a longer indoor start than tomatoes. Short-season varieties matter north of zone 7.
Lettuce
The crop that makes a first garden feel like a garden. Sow in spring and again in late summer.
The sow list
A note when it is time to sow
Seasonal, not daily. We will send what to start in your zone, and skip the rest of the year.
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