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Spinach Bordeaux Seed
Spinacia - oleracea (Hybrid)
$2.39

Item #0212

Like a fine wine, Bordeaux adds exquisite color and sweet flavor, turning an ordinary salad into a gourmet experience. A beautiful innovation in spinach, Bordeaux has burgundy stems and veins that accent its dark green leaves. Its rich, tender leaves with sweet flavor can be picked at any stage from small baby leaves to full size and can be used fresh or to jazz up any dish including dip, pizza, and quiche. A nutritious, easy crop to grow, you will enjoy Bordeaux’s attractive appearance as well as the fact that it is high in Vitamins A, C, iron, magnesium, folacin, and fiber. Spinach can be grown for most of the year in a range of climates, though as a cool season crop, it will do better in temperatures below 90 degrees (which can cause bolting). If mulched, it may over winter in climates with subzero temperatures. Successive plantings every three weeks will give you spinach for a very long period. It can be grown in full sun or partial shade.

When to plant outside: RECOMMENDED: Early spring, 4-6 weeks before average last frost, or when soil temperatures reach 35 degrees or higher. Successive plantings can be done thereafter every 3 weeks until 4 weeks before the first fall frost (skip very hot summers). Mulched, spinach can overwinter in subzero temperatures.

When to start inside: Not recommended.

Special Sowing & Germination Instructions: When thinning spinach, use thinnings in salads. It can be planted in rows, but group plantings take less space. Plants should be thinned to 5"-6" in each direction. Double or triple rows also work. If directly seeding outside in late summer for a fall crop, remember that spinach seed does not come up well in heat. Cover the seeded area with boards to keep the soil cool for a few days until seed comes up or overseed (seed at a rate higher than the recommended 1 seed per inch).

Container Tips: Spinach can be grown in containers as small as 1 gallon, with just 1-3 plants in each. Spinach has shallow roots, so a wide shallow container works well as long as it’s kept moist. Plants can be grown closer 4"-5" apart.

Harvesting Pick individual leaves from outer edges of the plants as they become big enough OR cut the whole plant 1" above the base, and new leaves will grow. Harvest all leaves before the plant sends up a seed stalk.