How to Grow Spinach: From Seed to Harvest

This tutorial will teach you how to grow spinach, from seed to harvest-- including: when to plant spinach, how to direct sow spinach OR start spinach indoors, soil, water, light & fertilizer requirements for spinach, and when & how to harvest spinach.

00:00 Intro
00:19 When to plant spinach
01:09 How to direct sow spinach
01:47 A note on spinach spacing
03:09 How to start seed indoors & transplant
04:44 Best soil for spinach
05:11 Light requirement for spinach
05:30 Care & maintenance of spinach as it grows- fertilizer & water
06:04 Harvesting spinach

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[joshuam]

Michigan and Ohio have always been “rival states” lol but in the world of gardening, we are neighbors. Enjoy watching all of your videos 😊

[tuansimplelife]

Thank you ! This is the first time Tuan has learned and followed a beautiful, talented woman how to grow this wonderful vegetable. Wishing you good health and success, dear friend from Vietnam 🌹🇻🇳❤️

[juliaderi]

Please keep the how-to guides coming!🙌 I'm in my mid 30's and have been gardening for 11 years and still learn so much from you! Bought several of your favorites recommendations, including spinach. LOVE your videos!! 🩷

[stevefabian-udit]

Another informative video for our area Jenna ! I'm always surprised at how early we can start "cold crop" veggies. Keep up the great videos !

[cherigeitz]

My fall spinich made it through central iowa winter. 😊 nice to walk out and get fresh spinich starting in February

[vincevoland]

Morgan County Ohio here. I seeded some spinach 2 years ago. Still picking off the same plants. I just let them do their thing. They don't die!

[franksinatra]

I grow most of my spinach in the fall but as you mentioned the challenge is getting the seeds to germinate in the warmer soil. I found that planting in well screened or fine soil in the fall seems to help germination. The mistake I've been making is amending the bed with unfinished compost and trying to get the spinach to germinate in that and it usually doesn't work so well. But I eventually do get it going. I cover with a mini poly tunnel and I'm able to get occasional pickings in the dead of winter but by March I'm picking once a week and eating spinach salads 100% until my lettuce comes in in May. Great to eat off the garden all year around!

[RePetesBees]

Spot on, Exact practice i use here in CT zone 6a. Love your videos. always so informative to watch and never 'dry' or overly repetitive video. thank you!

[johnjude]

Will see you Saturday on Urban Gardener
I'm getting radishes and bunching onions this coming week. I have cellly seeds also to start outside
Peppers inside started to root some tomatoes, too
Thanks

[Muddysmind]

Hello fellow Ohioian! Thanks for the info, helped me figure out my spinach strategy this spring.

[jasoncar]

North Alabama here. I plant at the spacing level so that way I can also replant as necessary. I do not like wasting seeds

[johnjude]

I noticed the Asian house you used today. My wife didn't like mine, then I realized she's left handed. I'm a Blacksmith Hobbiest, so I made her a left-hand model, and she "dig" now. I made a handle almost 3 ft
as she has foot surgery and needs to sit.

[gregj]

I’ve had terrible luck getting seeds to germinate indoors and it might be too warm. I didn’t realize that spinach germinates better in colder soil. Very informative video

[barbaravanerp]

I love the idea of the baby leaf spinach thinning idea! I did not know tight spacing could cause bolting. Thanks!

[jenntek.]

The 12 hour theory is a good one to know.

[paige]

Great video! Keep them coming!!! I'm in New England and just starting out 2024. Have some potatoes in grow bags, Some Eggplants, broccoli and tomatoes under the grow lights. Just put a few onion sets out. 3 types of tomato seeds planted indoors yesterday. I didn't know you could transplant spinach. Thanks for the tip. I'll be trying that this year

[bublhed]

I’ve always struggled with growing spinach but this year I have some in my winter sowing jug that germinated 😊. I hope it continues successfully!

[WesternMONo-TillGardening]

Spinach is one of the vegetables I haven't mastered yet, so this was very helpful. Thank you.

[Javaman]

You always do such a good job. I bet you will not be surprised to learn that I sow my seed at what I feel the spacing needs to be and then come back if needed and fill in anything that didn't grow or grow well.

I'm curious. I recently learned about just how dire the bird and butterfly population has crashed and plan on planting native plants to help them out here. Since 1970 we have lost almost 3 BILLION birds! The monarch butterfly is on the endangered list and their numbers have actually dropped below the extinction threshold. Since the birds depend on caterpillars to survive and a large amount of them need specific native plants... well. That is why I am planting to meet those needs. Thoughts?

[a_l_e_k_sandra]

Great, concise video. Thank you, Jenna.