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.
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
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