Succession Planting Guide for Spinach

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by Lucy Apthorp Leske
April 1997
from issue #8

In this chart, 0 is the last frost date. Weeks 8 to 18, midsummer, are too hot to sow spinach.

Suggested cold-tolerant spinach varieties: 'Melody', 'Tyee'

Suggested bolt-resistant spinach varieties: 'Indian Summer', 'Steadfast', 'Bloomsdale'

weeks before last frost date															too hot
7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8-18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26

Cold-tolerant varieties* (sow indoors, transplant)

				Cold-tolerant varieties* (sow directly into soil)

							Bolt-resistant varieties (sow directly into soil, protect with row cover)

									Bolt-resistant varieties (sow directly into soil, protect with row cover)

																Cold-tolerant varieties (sow indoors in week 18, transplant)

																					Cold-tolerant varieties** (sow directly into soil, mulch with hay)