For the Love of Popeye

October 7th, 2008

My spinach seeds germinated wonderfully. I’m guessing I had about a 90% germination rate, which is great. When the plants grow a little bigger, I’ll use the thinnings as baby spinach – yum yum.

Hopefully these will mean delicious spinach salads late into fall and if I mulch it well, we’ll be able to eat spinach very early next spring. I’ll keep you posted.

Anyone else growing winter greens?

6 Comments to “For the Love of Popeye”
  1. Pine Pod Farm on October 7, 2008 at 7:31 am

    Yummy!

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  2. Jennifer on October 7, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Our spinach never gets any taller than this. One plant got a leggy set of true leaves, then it died, that was our best one :(

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  3. Emily@remodelingthislife on October 7, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    What a great photo! I can’t wait to eat my spinach.

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  4. AgrarianLife on October 7, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Do you have a picture of your winter beds? Are they hot beds or cold frames, or another design? I would love to see your set up for your fall crops, including carrots, right?

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  5. Carolyn on October 7, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Pretty!!

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  6. Susy on October 7, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Right now the beds are just regular old raised beds. We’re going to be building some cold frames to put on top of them for winter. Those will go over the carrots & spinach. Then in the summer we can just take them off and put them in the garage till next fall. I’ll try to take a few photos of all the beds.

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