Spinach
Growing vegetables
When to sow spinach in the ground?
If you wish to harvest beautiful spinaches in your permaculture vegetable garden, it is essential to plant them during the most favourable period. Find all our councils to know when to sow spinach in full ground!<br> What you must know...
2 March 2022
Growing vegetables
When is spinach in season?
Spinach is a leafy vegetable in the Chenopodiaceae family, like amaranth and arrowroot. As well as its use in cooking, it also makes itself useful in the garden as a green manure. It can be grown in spring and autumn....
17 December 2025
Spinach
- Type : Vegetables
- Subtype : Leafy vegetables
- Botanical Family : Chenopodiaceae
Characteristics
- Lifecycle : Annual
- Exposure : Partial Shade
- Frost Hardiness : Frost Resistant
- Cultivation Difficulty : Medium
- Adult Height : 30 cm
Sowing & Planting
- Greenhouse Growing : Not Required
- Sowing Depth : 1 cm
- Plant Spacing : 10 cm
- Row Spacing : 25 cm
Maintenance
- Maintenance : Low
- Water Requirements : Moderate
Seeds
- Soil Type : Humus-rich
- Soil pH Preference : Acidic
- Pest Sensitivity : Moderate
- Disease Sensitivity : Moderate
- Weed Sensitivity : Moderate
- Pollination : Wind-pollinated
- Propagation : Sowing