Heirloom Organic Whale Spinach Seeds

Heirloom Organic Whale Spinach Seeds (50)

Disease Resistant Smooth-Leaf. Whale produces good, early yields of round, dark green, smooth-leaved spinach. It is an excellent spinach variety to harvest at a young stage for baby leaf spinach or let it fully mature to produce good quantities of smooth leaf spinach. Whale has resistance to downy mildew (races 1 to 7), moderate tolerance to bolting and tolerance to tip burn. Grow for spring, summer or fall crops.37 days to harvest. Whale Spinach Seeds are an F1 hybrid that produces good yields of dark green, smooth-leafed spinach. The upright plants with there smooth leaves are easy to clean. Smooth dark green elongated leaf, short upright habit, uniform baby type, ( harvest young for baby leaf, mature for regular spinach.

Vegetable Garden – Tips on Growing Spinach from Seeds
Spinach is frost tolerant and grows best in the cool weather that comes in the beginning and the end of the growing season. Direct-sow it in the garden in spring as soon as the ground can be worked, or in the fall, or starts it in flats indoors three to four weeks before the last frost in spring. Spinach germinates and grows well in cool weather. Along with being nutritious, spinach is also versatile in the kitchen. It's delicious raw in salads, and it's the basic ingredient in many hot dishes, including lasagna.