Spinach Perpetual

If your summer spinach is always running to seed before you manage to get a worthwhile crop off it, then this is the variety for you because it virtually never runs to seed in its first season. It is succulent, prolific and very hardy, suitable for fall and winter crops too.

Type/hardiness: Vegetable; Cropping in 50 Days

Sowing:

Sow in early spring and/or fall very thinly in ordinary garden soil in drills 1 inch deep in rows 12 inches apart.

Growing:

As the seedlings grow, gradually thin out to 9 inches apart.

Aftercare:

The thinnings can be trimmed of their roots and cooked. Water freely through the season and harvest by picking a few leaves, snapping them off close to the ground, from several plants rather than completely stripping one. If there are more leaves ready than you can use it is still best to pick them to encourage a steady supply of young green leaves.

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