Spinat provides a wealth of healthy leaves and is both delicious and nutritious. It grows quickly and can be planted in partial shade in the warmer months, which makes it ideal for urban gardens and other cramped locations. If you sow small seeds regularly, you can enter the majority of the year.
In a young condition, the delicate spinach leaves are perfect for salads. If you are bigger, you can simply be cooked for a more hearty meal. The leaves are most healthy when they are eaten freshly because they contain high concentration of iron, vitamins and minerals. The fine taste and the delicate texture of raw baby spinach make it absolutely pleasure. Would you also like to sow spinach in September? Read on to learn more about it!
If you want to have plenty of spinach all season, you should sow your seeds in autumn. If you want to sow seeds for an autumn harvest, the ideal time at the end of August at the latest in mid -September - the plants can root well. As with spring sowing, the seeds can either be planted in pots or directly into the earth - raised beds and outdoor can be planted perfectly with spinach. About six weeks later you can start harvesting the young leaves. You can extend the harvest time by two or three weeks by covering the plant in November with a raised bed cover.
Which floor and which varieties are suitable?
The sowing of spinach can take place in pots or directly into the ground, as already mentioned. Fertile, moist earth or potting soil is ideal for this. By adding compost, fertility, the structure and water adaptability of the soil are improved.
Important tip: Choose robust varieties for the autumn sowing and plant the seeds in cool or warm weather so that they germinate optimally. The varieties 'Butterflay' or 'winter giant Verdil' are particularly well suited for sowing in September, as they are limited and can be harvested early after winter. The varieties 'Bloomsdale' or 'Gamma' should not sow in autumn.
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Instructions for the autumn sowing
- If you temporarily have a gap in your vegetable garden, in beds or terrace pots, you sow spinach because it grows quickly. Place the seeds of your spinach thin, about 1.5 - 2.5 cm deep in well -prepared, healthy soil in a sunny place.
- Immerse yourself in the seeds and make sure that you are well hydrated.
- Determine the distance between the seed rows at 40 cm.
- Keep your plants under freezing under freezing under a raised bed cover or another type of protection.
Pikate spinach or not?
- If you have early seedlings and you have developed the first leaves, you can prick them.
- Carefully take the seedlings out of your containers with a cutting tool or the stem of a spoon.
- You can repott them into a larger container or plant them directly in the garden.
- The distance between the plants should be 10 centimeters.
Please note the following:You do not have to prick directly sowing seedlings. But you can thin out the plants. When the plants start to touch, they thin them out. Make sure that after the last thinning, there is a distance of 30 centimeters between the individual plants.
Creating spinach properly
- Snails are probably the first pests that they encounter when growing spinach. Although they no longer do much damage, if the culture is already well established, entire rows of freshly germinated seedlings can destroy in no time. You may not notice the problem at all because you can make it so quickly.
- If you want to achieve a handsome spinach harvest, you should take care of water next. Under dry conditions you need large amounts of water, but waterlogging doesn't bring much. If the plants do not get enough water, they shoot up and start sowing, which leads to extremely bitter leaves. If your plants start to bloom or set seeds, you can also compost them.
- Especially when the plants are still young, they have to weigh them. However, most weeds are suffocated by the rapid growth of the plants once they have established themselves.
- Harn the spinach by starting with the outer leaves and working inwards. The plants almost sprout in front of their eyes when they have grown first, so it is bestto harvest themas long as they are still young.
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