Valuable tips for growing spinach in your garden

Everyone knows that spinach leaves have many vitamins and minerals that humans need. Spinach in the garden tolerates the cold well, so you can plant it right after the ground has thawed well. So you can start sowing it as soon as it gets warmer up to +5 degrees. So you can plant it from March to the end of July. But it can also be planted before winter. Autumn, late September or even October. The plant overwinters well and as soon as the ground thaws, the first green leaves will appear in a couple of weeks. If you plant spinach in the garden for the winter, then in the fall you need to fertilize the land with mineral fertilizer. It is not necessary to buy a fertilizer mixture, you can use ordinary compost. The most popular varieties are: "Zhirnolistny", "Gigantic", "Red", "Bordeaux F1", "Red Cardinal F1" and "Victoria".

For spinach to sprout faster, the seeds need to be soaked in warm water for up to two days, because these seeds have a very hard shell. Then the seeds are well dried, and sown immediately into the openings of the ground. They plant spinach in the garden on the beds, make rows in vu its length, up to two cm deep. And the distance between them should be at least 15 cm. The first shoots should appear in two weeks. If you plant spinach bushes too densely, then the plants will develop very slowly, so when the seeds in the row have sprung up too often, the plants will need to be pulled out by pulling out the extra ones, while the earth must be well poured so that there is no stress for the bushes nearby.

It is necessary to regularly and moderately water the spinach, and remove all weeds in time, because they can drown out young plants. And so that moisture evaporates less on the aisles, you can put hay, dry leaves or chopped straw. The ground must always be moist, the main thing is that it does not stagnate, otherwise the roots can rot. It is especially important to water the spinach well in the heat, otherwise it may start to stem from drought. It is necessary to loosen the ground after each watering so that oxygen flows to the roots. It is important to feed the soil with fertilizers. If there is not enough fertilizer for the spinach, then its leaves become of a different color and die off over time.

Due to the fact that spinach does not tolerate heat very well, at temperatures above 25 degrees above the plants, you need to create a shade so that the bushes do not overheat and turn into flowering. This delicate land is very fond of aphids, flies and slugs, but it cannot be treated with chemicals, therefore, so that these pests do not appear, you just need to properly care for your plants. To get all the benefits of spinach leaves, you need to collect it on time, or rather, 9-10 weeks after germination, and it is better to do this in the morning, after they dry out from evening watering, if it outgrows, then it is no longer suitable for food. You can harvest greens after there are 5-6 leaves on the bush, that is, 35 - 40 days after the germination of plants. You can either cut off the leaves, or pull the bush right by the root. Fresh spinach can be stored for up to two weeks, and if you want to keep it for the winter, then you need to dry it, freeze it or preserve it.

You need to plant spinach on fertilized soil, in the beds, in a well-lit place, but in the heat, creating an artificial shade for the bushes. Where there is no stagnant water and no cold winds.