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  • From: Ken Bezilla <kenbez AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Germinating and planting spinach
  • Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 17:55:59 +0000

Do y'all ever have trouble with spinach plants wilting and disappearing in the heat?  That was my experience in southern Missouri when I tried a mid- to late-August sowing of spinach -- I'd get good germination, just from doing regular direct seeding, no special method; but then the spinach plants would disappear over the next few weeks til there was nothing left.  I thought what I had happening was similar to the problem that beets often had for me when trying to sow them when it's super hot -- good germination but poor seedling survival.  So ever since I've waited til mid-September to plant fall spinach crops.

Ken Bezilla
Acorn Community Farm
central VA




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