Vegetable / Cool season
Bloomsdale Spinach
Early spring greens, fall beds, and cold-frame harvests.
Savoyed leaves with mineral sweetness.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 42
- Germination temperature
- 45-68F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 6 inches
- Row spacing
- 12 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 35 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 10 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 6 inches in-row spacing, 12 inches between rows, and 0.5 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Poor germination in hot soil; wait for cooler fall temperatures. Keep evenly moist for tender leaves. Cool, fertile soil with good drainage.
Is it still worth sowing this year?
Every region this site covers (Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA) publishes a spinach planting window, so the answer for this variety is already dated. No other region is covered yet.
- The Texas spinach window, measured against first frost AgriLife lists spinach for Texas (AgriLife Region III); the page measures that window against this variety's 42 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- How much frost runway Bloomsdale Spinach has left in North Florida UF/IFAS lists spinach for North Florida; the page measures that window against this variety's 42 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- The Central Maryland spinach window, measured against first frost UMD Extension lists spinach for Central Maryland; the page measures that window against this variety's 42 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- How much frost runway Bloomsdale Spinach has left in New York City Cornell CCE lists spinach for the New York City area; the page measures that window against this variety's 42 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- The York County, PA spinach window, measured against first frost Penn State Extension lists spinach for York County, Pennsylvania; the page measures that window against this variety's 42 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Keep evenly moist for tender leaves.
- Soil
- Cool, fertile soil with good drainage.
- Watch
- Poor germination in hot soil; wait for cooler fall temperatures.
- early
- cold-tolerant
- salad
- fall
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Amaranth Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
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