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It's easy to plant spinach in your garden

2020-04-28T12:53:30.593Z


With spinach in the garden bed, you are definitely not doing anything wrong. The healthy vegetables are easy to care for and offer good yields. We have tips on planting.


With spinach in the garden bed, you are definitely not doing anything wrong. The healthy vegetables are easy to care for and offer good yields. We have tips on planting.

  • If you like healthy vegetables, spinach is essential.
  • Spinach from your own garden tastes particularly fresh and delicious .
  • We'll show you how to choose the right location and how to sow .

Spinach is usually found as a healthy side dish on the dinner plate and lures with a comparatively high iron content. If you can't have enough of the green vegetables, spinach will be a rewarding job for the hobby gardener. Find out what you need to know about sowing and caring for spinach here.

When is the right time to plant spinach?

Spinach is usually sown directly in the ground. There are numerous opportunities for this: spring spinach is sown from March to May , while the last weeks of August are suitable for sowing in autumn. The last chance to grow is between mid-September and early October, provided the weather is still mild. As a rule, spinach should not be planted in summer unless it is a bulletproof variety.    

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Plant spinach: This location is suitable

Depending on the type of spinach, the demands on the location can also change. The vegetables generally prefer a full-sun to partially shaded spot, but summer spinach thrives in the light shade, while winter spinach prefers to be sunny. The soil should be humus- rich and permeable so that the deep-growing tap roots can develop well. The pH is best at 6.5 to 7.5.

If you are looking for suitable neighbors for spinach , we recommend tomatoes *, cucumbers *, strawberries *, kohlrabi, beans * and onions *. Chard or beetroot * are less suitable because they are - like spinach - goose-foot plants. Goose-foot plants should not be planted in the same place within four years of growing spinach.

Go with it : If you forget this thing while growing vegetables, there is a risk of disease and pests.

Instructions: How to plant spinach in the garden bed

Before sowing, loosen the soil with a rake and enrich it with compost. Then sow the spinach in rows that are 20 centimeters apart. The spinach plants themselves also need around ten centimeters of space for the next one.

As soon as this task is done, press the seeds into the seed grooves about two to three centimeters deep and cover them firmly. Then pour in the freshly sown spinach. If there is still a risk of frost, it makes sense to cover the bed with fleece . The spinach begins to germinate even at low temperatures.

If you would like to pick the spring a little earlier, you can also bring the first plants in pots beforehand. To do this, place about five to six seeds in a planter that you put in a place at about twelve degrees. The first seedlings can be seen within a few days.

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Care tips for spinach

When the spinach is sown, it only takes a bit of care to be successful in the harvest: keep the soil weed-free and water the small plants regularly - but so that there is no waterlogging. Since spinach is a medium-heavy plant, you can also use an organic fertilizer. You should only avoid strong nitrogen fertilization, otherwise too much nitrate will accumulate in the spinach leaves.

Harvesting spinach: when is it ready?

The first plants are ready to be harvested about eight weeks after sowing . Simply cut the leaves shortly above the ground regularly, leaving the spinach hearts untouched. This way you can harvest your spinach up to four times. As soon as flowers form, you should keep your hands off it.

How to grow spinach on the balcony

If there is no space available in the garden bed or you simply like to have the spinach close by, you can easily plant the vegetables in a pot on the balcony. It is important that the planter has a depth of at least 30 to 40 centimeters so that the tap roots of the spinach have enough space for development.

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Source: merkur

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