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Growing Spinach, also English spinach (Spinacia oleracea)

Easy to grow. Sow direct. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed.
Best planted at soil temperatures between 10°C and 25°C.

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Your comments and tips

20 Apr 2008 Lynton Wright
I Find Spinach the most Difficult vegetable to grow. That is to strike
01 May 2008 Noelene Smith
I have success with this seed. I keep it damp and protected. In the middle of a group of plants I just sprinkle seed. then transplant it before it get over 10-15 cm. Snails are the worst enemy of new shoots so you will have to protect the seed as they shoot.
14 May 2008 Janette Jenyns
No success at all getting spinach seed to germinate. Have tried planting in egg carton covered with plastic to keep moist by still no luck.
16 May 2008 Liz
Have you tried soaking in a saucer of water for 24 hours? You may find that the hard coat will soften enough to encourage germination.

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