Quick Guide to Growing Spinach
Growing spinach is fairly easy and can be done no matter what part of the country you live in. Being low to the ground, 10 to 12 inches at maturity, it is a good plant to use at the edges of your home garden. Spinach's dark green, shiny leaves are as attractive as they are nutritious. Being extremely rich in Vitamin A and iron makes it a wonderful addition to some of your favorite meals.
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How to Grow Spinach
Spinach is a cool season crop best started in early spring after the danger of a heavy frost is past. If you live in the south, spinach should be planted in the fall for a winter harvest.
A fast-growing crop, spinach likes well drained rich soil and should be planted in full sun but can tolerate partial shade.
When growing spinach, plant the spinach seeds directly into your garden, in rows approximately 12 inches apart. Thin the spinach seedlings to one plant every 4 inches.
The spinach plant has shallow roots and needs plenty of water.
Spinach Growing and Planting
Video Instructions for growing spinach
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Spinach has many uses in the kitchen. It can be used, raw, in salads, or cooked into quiches, omelets, pizzas, pasta dishes or even just served on its own, boiled, steamed or sautéed. Its slightly bitter taste makes it a great companion to many other vegetables whenever you feel like mixing them up a bit. I always incorporate some mushrooms into my sautéed spinach.
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When it comes to which foods offer the best "medicine", green leafy vegetables are among the best. The health benefits of regularly including green leafy vegetables in the diet are nothing short of miraculous. Based on the latest health research, there is no doubt that plant foods, especially green leafy vegetables, can reduce the risk of many of the diseases that plague modern people including heart disease and cancer, the two bigest killers in the United States today.
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