This winter I am growing a bunch of different leaf vegetables. Among these leafy vegetables was spinach, as this always performs well for me over winter.
Normally I get whatever variety of spinach seed that is available, and for no particular reason I rarely save spinach seed myself. This year I chose Oriental Summer Jade spinach.
I chose this variety as I don't have much luck growing spinach over summer, and this variety is meant to handle the heat well. I am growing it over winter at the moment, and it is performing as well as any other variety I have grown.
The days from planting the seed in the garden until picking the leaves is below. Being in Australia, the date is written Day/Month/Year.
Larger leaf We have been picking leaves of increasing size ever since the baby leaf stage
Oriental Summer Jade Spinach |
For some reason I don't often get around to saving spinach seed, which I always regret after a few years when I plant the last of my seed and need to buy more. Spinach tends to be dioecious, which means some plants are female and other plants are male. There aren't a lot of vegetables like this. Occasionally some spinach plants, and some varieties of spinach, are monoecious with female and male flowers on the same plant.
For a long list of days from planting a seed until harvest of many different vegetables and berries, please look at my Guide on Days to Vegetable Harvest. As above, I recorded days from planting the seed until harvesting.
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