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
Fresh spinach season: when can you harvest it in France?
In mainland France, fresh spinach is mainly in season from autumn to spring, with seasonal supplies also available in June and September. July and August are less suitable for growing it in many gardens. For your own harvest, the variety,...
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
- Mature height : 30 cm
Sowing & Planting
- Greenhouse crops : Unheated greenhouse
- Greenhouse Growing : Not Required
- Sowing Depth : 1 cm
- Plant Spacing : 10 cm
- Row Spacing : 25 cm
Maintenance
- Maintenance : Low
- Water Requirements : Moderate
Other characteristics
- Soil Type : Humus-rich
- Soil pH Preference : Acidic
- Pest Sensitivity : Moderate
- Disease Sensitivity : Moderate
- Weed Sensitivity : Moderate
- Pollination : Wind-pollinated
- Propagation : Sowing