Spinach Vegetable Seeds Packet
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a fast-growing, cool-season leafy green, picked as baby leaves or full-size for salads, sautes, and smoothies. It is one of the first crops to plant in spring and one of the last to harvest in fall. Seeds are non-GMO and vacuum-sealed for freshness.
- Plant type: Annual
- Height: 6-12 in
- Sun: Full sun
- Days to germination: 5-10
- Days to harvest: 40-50 (baby leaves in about 25-30)
- Sowing depth: 1/2 in
- Spacing: 3-6 in between plants, 12-18 in between rows
- Soil: Fertile, well-drained, nitrogen-rich soil, pH 6.0-7.5
- Best temperature: 50-65F; germinates poorly and bolts above about 75F
- Packet: About 100 seeds
How to Grow Spinach from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Direct sow as soon as the soil can be worked in early spring, and again 6-8 weeks before the first fall frost. Spinach does not do well started indoors. Sow a small batch every couple of weeks for continuous harvest.
Care and Harvest
Keep moisture consistent, watering deeply at the base. Feed with balanced fertilizer or compost, and protect from hard frost with row covers or a cold frame. Cut outer leaves for continuous picking, or cut the whole plant before it bolts.
Dimensions: 5.6" x 3.6" x .1"
Weight: 1.6 hrs
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Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.
Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, the Toronto ceramics studio that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.
