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
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
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Quick-Maturity Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
- Part-Shade-Tolerant Seeds Practical trait collection
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