The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardening by Daria Price Bowman & Carl A. Price

Author:Daria Price Bowman & Carl A. Price [Bowman, Daria Price & Price, Carl A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Gardening, Gardens, Vegetables, vegetable gardening
ISBN: 9781592579075
Publisher: Alpha
Published: 2009-01-21T06:00:00+00:00

Prof. Price’s Pointers

Spinach has a tendency to bolt. This is an undesirable early maturity of leafy plants whereby they rush through their life cycle to the flowering and seed-producing stage. This is typical of spinach, lettuce, and radishes and usually happens when the weather gets too warm for them. When the plants have bolted, they are inedible.

Water spinach regularly and thoroughly, and feed it every couple weeks with a high-nitrogen fertilizer. Harvest by thinning the plants to about 4 to 6 inches apart and picking individual leaves of larger plants. You can also harvest whole plants by pulling them, roots and all, from the row.

Spinach is one of the few vegetables that will tolerate some shade.

If you plan to grow spinach to enjoy mostly in salads and as “baby spinach,” choose one of the smooth leaf varieties. The kind of spinach Popeye preferred (boiled and canned) is a curly leaf type. Both can be grown in the home garden.

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