Description
Enjoy fresh, tender leaves year-round with Space Spinach, a versatile heirloom variety known for its smooth to slightly savoyed medium-green leaves. Upright and compact, Space grows 4–6″ tall, producing a reliable, productive yield perfect for salads, sautéing, or smoothies. With excellent resistance to downy mildew and good bolting tolerance, this spinach thrives in both spring and fall gardens, making it ideal for gardeners seeking a hardy, flavorful crop.
Sow outdoors 4–6 weeks before your last frost when soil temperatures reach 40°–75°F, with successive plantings every 3 weeks for a continuous harvest. Leaves can be picked individually or harvested at the base, encouraging new growth and prolonging productivity. Frost-tolerant and easy to grow, Space Spinach delivers a dependable, high-quality harvest of tender, nutritious greens for all seasons.
This packet contains 206 seeds.
Variety Info:
Days to Maturity: 30 – 45 Days
Family: Amaranthaceae
Native: Southwest Asia
Hardiness: Frost-tolerant annual
Exposure: Full Sun to Part Shade
Plant Dimensions: 4″–6″ tall and wide
Variety Info: Medium-green leaves that are smooth to slightly savoyed. High resistance to Downy Mildew races 1–3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, and 19.
Attributes: Frost Tolerant
Sowing Info:
When to Sow Outside: RECOMMENDED. 4 to 6 weeks before your average last frost date, and when soil temperature is above 40°F; ideally 50°-75°F. Successive Sowings: Every 3 weeks until 4 weeks before your average first fall frost date. If mulched, spinach can overwinter in sub-zero temperatures. Soil temperatures above 85°F halt germination. Mild Climates: Sow in fall for cool-season harvests.
When to Start Inside: Not recommended; roots sensitive to disturbance.
Days to Emerge: 5 – 10 Days
Seed Depth: 1/2″
Seed Spacing: 3/4″
Row Spacing: 12″
Thinning: Not necessary
Growing Info:
Harvesting: Pick individual leaves from outer edges of plant as they become big enough to use or cut the whole plant 1″ above the ground; new leaves will be produced. When picking individual leaves, also removing the leaf stem at the same time is best; this reduces vulnerability to disease during die-back and conserves plant energy. Harvest before the plant sends up a flower stalk (bolting). Just prior to bolting, leaves take on an ?arrowhead? shape, adding small keel shapes to the base of the leaf.
