Spinach is a great winter crop! I'm in zone 7A and I can keep it outside in freezing temperatures with a cold-frame when I plant the "Giant Winter Spinach" variety.
I found a couple of them on the side of the road as "trash." Funny, but, had I not seem them laying flat on the ground, I'm not sure it would have occurred to me, either. Horizontal glass = cold frames, but vertical glass = windows or shower doors.
So happy to have found your channel. I am a total newbie to vegie growing but have found it really quite fun and rewarding. Your vids are super helpful when I don't have a clue what I'm doing!!
I watched your garden tour and absolutely fell in love with it! I grew spinach for the first time and it did amazing! I would love to be your neighbor! New subscriber! 🍇🥔🍆🍅🌱🌶
I'm so delighted to have found your videos. Thanks for posting and creating different ideas about gardening. I have subscribed and notifications are on. Keep it up and all the best 👍 👌
This is fabulous, and *so* helpful! I've never consciously thought about harvesting spinach, eh? Just something to get done. Thank you most particularly for this video; I'm betting I can learn something new and very helpful from your one on coriander, which I'm going to be growing (or at least sowing!) this spring/autumn for the first time, ever. About household scissors in the garden, Mel Bartholomew of Square Foot Gardening fame suggested getting as many pairs as you need from the dollar store and then stashing them where you'll be needing them, around the garden. I wouldn't do that where I live simply because it rains often enough to ruin the blades, but if the gardener had a way to protect them, they could be left out---I reckon. I do like the idea, though, of a pair of scissors dedicated to garden harvests, the way pruners are reserved for specific garden tasks, and cleaned between beds or crops so diseases or pests don't get passed around. Thanks so much for this video! So clear, and so instructive! Wonderful!
@@ReSprout Isn't "coriander" the seed of the plant when the plant flowers and makes seed, and cilantro the leaf or leaves? If so, is seed production that heavy? (Do you do a lot of Mexican/meso-American or East Indian cooking?) Anything special I need to know about growing coriander...? Or just let the seeds have at it, sort of weed-like?
Yeah, I found growing coriander to be effortless here in my area. Basically just let the cilantro flower, then go to seed, then dry on the stalk. I admit I don't use it as fast as I grow it, but I've been trying to eat more Indian so hopefully there will be an outlet soon!
@@ReSprout Does it need a longer growing season than my zone 6A-almost-B conditions provide, I wonder? This is Feb. 10, and I'm just now testing germination, although not of many herbs. Basil, from last year, going great guns, oregano just sitting there; four-year-old okra seed, which I'd always understood had to be replaced each growing season, ready to be potted up or planted *somewhere,* not sure where we have room under lights and okra's not a s mall plant.... Well, not anyone else's problem. But it does feel good to see the seeds producing. Also "Violet de Provence" artichokes (also not small plants!) seeds from last year, when they didn't get planted.... Looking eagerly for your next video. And thanks so much!
Coriander/cilantro is a very quick crop. I can usually get a couple successions every year. I'm in 7A, so not that different from 6A. I'm sure you'll do fine with it! It's very forgiving!
Hi Brian, I'm in zone 7A on Long Island in New York. We definitely have snow here, though maybe not as much as you. Check out my winterizing video and you can witness me gardening in the snow (no joke)! 😂
Hi Jayden, I'm in 7A in the U.S. I keep a cold frame on the spinach and use a winter variety. Check out Elliot Coleman's book Four Season Harvest. He is doing the same thing is zone 5 in Maine! Crazy stuff!
Daniel Dunning Glad this helped! Instead of scissors, you can actually pull kale off by hand by pulling the stem downwards. What I love about kale is it doesn’t bolt (go to seed) like spinach so if you’re looking for continuous harvest during the summer, kale is a better choice than spinach. The Quick Cut Greens Harvester MIGHT work on baby kale. And of course you can always clear-cut any crop.
Hey Christine, that means the spinach is done. It bolted. It is trying to create seeds (in the flowers) so it can reproduce now instead of making leaves. It's still edible, but it will be a lot less productive and probably bitter tasting. Best thing to do is mow it under or pull it out and start a new crop! Good luck!
I have harvested some of my spinich plants a couple 0f weeks ago and I'm finding that they r not regrowing any of the spinich leaves on it atm. Can u tell me wat I am doing wrong Asia's the 1st time of having my own vege garden
Hey Loretta! There's a couple of things that could be going on... You might just need to wait a little longer. Or, did your spinach bolt before you harvested? (Bolted spinach usually won't come back.) Are your plants under a lot of stress (heat, cold, drought, etc)? It might be that harvesting on top of everything else was just too much for the plant. How many of the leaves did you harvest? (If it was too many, the plant might give up, too). Hope that helps! With gardening it is almost never ONE thing. There's so many variables!
Should a spinach plant have a certain number of leaves before I start to cut some off or can I eat them as soon as I start to see the true leaves appear?
If you want to keep the plant alive I try to cut no more than 3/4 of its leaves. It COULD grow back if you cut the whole thing but the odds aren’t good. Now if you’re gonna turn the bed over and plant something else anyways, take ‘em all! Happy harvest! 😀
Hi Rick! Depends on how much I have. Sounds silly, but the first place food gets stored is our stomachs. 🤣 Whenever I do a harvest, that's when I make a lot of my favorite spinach recipes like spinach dip, saag paneer, Greek spinach casserole, spinach salads, things like that. After that, I freeze a lot in freezer bags in my chest freezer. And then I dehydrate a lot too. They dehydrated stuff I add to soups, stews, anything that is going to get boiled or cooked long enough to rehydrate it. Hope that helps!
Thank you very much. I am ready to harvest my first ever spinach plants in my newly constructed winter greenhouse. They were planted in december and are looking tasty. Do you recommend any specific brand of pruners? I will be harvesting tomatoes, kale, swiss chard, cucumber, bell peppers and spinach this year. I want to be less agresive with my plants than in the years past. However, I am a little overwhelmed with all of the pruner options. Do you advise any one brand or type. Or are you strictly a scissor and knife kinda girl? 😂
My favorite pruners are Felco definitely. Buy 'em once and keep 'em for a lifetime (unless you forget them under 2" of mulch 🤣). As far as scissors vs. knives vs. pruners, it really depends what I'm harvesting. For delicate smaller things like single spinach leaves or herbs, I'll use scissors or the Felco harvest shears (resprout.com/go/felco-shears/) since they have small tip. For bigger things with thicker stems (peppers, eggplants, squash), I'll use the regular Felco pruners (resprout.com/go/felco-pruners/). I use a harvest knife (or old steak knife) like I did in this video for when I'm grabbing a bunch of things (handful of greens, cabbages, lettuce heads) and need to saw wider than what a pruner can do. A knife is also easier to get close to the ground and go sideways. Hope that helps!
@@jahhead-piece-banga2530 That's great to hear! You won't regret it! There's nothing I hate more that futzy tools. Makes life so much harder when you don't have a good tool. :)
Hi MLT! It's hard to describe, but basically the new leaves, the ones on the top and in the center are TINY and pointed instead of round, and you'll see them start clustering around what looks like (and is) a flower stem with flower buds that will eventually flower. Basically, the plant just looks "weird" and like it's doing something. It also grows more vertically instead of out. If you google "spinach bolting" and look at the images, you'll get an idea of what it looks like.
It IS still edible technically, though it might be a little more bitter. Try it and see if you like it. I do a couple sowings a year of spinach. After they bolt, I pull out the whole bed and replant with new seeds. They're a quick crop. Depending on your zone, you should be able to get a couple crops that way.
Haha! I get that from time to time! Please tell her! I tried to comment on her videos one time to introduce myself as her doppelgänger and there were just crickets. 🦗🤣
This is the first year that I’ve grown spinach indoors to eat throughout the winter. I’m growing them in huge pots. This is just the info I needed.
Spinach is a great winter crop! I'm in zone 7A and I can keep it outside in freezing temperatures with a cold-frame when I plant the "Giant Winter Spinach" variety.
Great information, thank you! Also, great idea with shower door over raised bed! I would’ve never thought of that but I won’t forget about it.
I found a couple of them on the side of the road as "trash." Funny, but, had I not seem them laying flat on the ground, I'm not sure it would have occurred to me, either. Horizontal glass = cold frames, but vertical glass = windows or shower doors.
This is my first time growing spinach. Thank you for the tips.
It's a great beginner crop! You'll do great. It's fairly pest-free, you just have to watch out for the summer heat, that's it!
So happy to have found your channel. I am a total newbie to vegie growing but have found it really quite fun and rewarding. Your vids are super helpful when I don't have a clue what I'm doing!!
Thank you! So glad my videos are helping! That's why I do this. 😃
Thank you so much . we live in a condominium that has a balcony we started to grow spinach and had no idea how to pick 🌻🌻🌻
Happy to help!
very helpful for my first time in my raised bed
Glad it helped!
Very detailed information. Superb. Thank u.
Wow, I never thought to use house hold scissors.Thanks!
Gardeners are a resourceful bunch! LOL!
I use regular scissors all over my garden! Also good for deadheading flowers. And for use on any really fragile slim stems
@@ReSprout Did you use the word bunch purposefully as in a bunch of spinach? Nice!
I watched your garden tour and absolutely fell in love with it! I grew spinach for the first time and it did amazing! I would love to be your neighbor! New subscriber! 🍇🥔🍆🍅🌱🌶
Oh thank you! I do try to bestow little vegetal presents on my neighbors throughout the year. I can never eat it all! Hopefully they appreciate! :-)
Perfect video. Just what i needed!
So glad!
Oh my this was great
Great video. Very helpful info.
Thank you Michael! You are officially my very first comment on my very first video. :-D
Very informative video. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you for this great video lesson!
Maria, this was my VERY FIRST video I ever made! I'm so pleased it's still useful to people. :-)
I'm so delighted to have found your videos. Thanks for posting and creating different ideas about gardening. I have subscribed and notifications are on. Keep it up and all the best 👍 👌
So nice of you
Very good information and video of what to do.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, thanks :)
Wow I wish I had enough greens to need one of those roller contraptions!
I know how cool is that thing?! I totally want one! It's probably overkill for my situation, though. This does not change my desire though. 😂
Ha ha! Don’t we all!
I leaned so much! Thank you for the info. High mowing is my favorite seed company too!
Yes I love them! Whenever they want to sponsor me, I'm ready, COUGH-COUGH. ;-)
@@ReSprout totally!
Never thought of old shower doors. I'd love to see it!
Actually all those shower doors are going to make a star appearance in my next video. Stay tuned!
@@ReSprout Can't wait!
Great video!
Thank you!! This was so helpful for a newbie 🙏🏼
Glad it helped Morgan!
Well dang. I’ve waited to long to harvest. Its hot here and my spinach has bolted. Phewey!!
Oh no! Well good thing about spinach is it's a pretty fast crop. Plant some more!
Really helpful, Thanks!
You're welcome!
Serrated Japanese sickle is the way to go. 2nd choice serrated japanese gardening knife, which does everything.
Yes I love my hori hori!
Amazing. Thank you!
You're welcome Yaelia!
Good video along of help . Ty what do u do w I think the spinach that has bolted? Cut at the crown
and discard?
Bolted spinach is still edible, but the flavor is slightly different, a little stronger. Try and see if you like it!
Thankyou 😊
You’re welcome 😊
This is fabulous, and *so* helpful! I've never consciously thought about harvesting spinach, eh? Just something to get done. Thank you most particularly for this video; I'm betting I can learn something new and very helpful from your one on coriander, which I'm going to be growing (or at least sowing!) this spring/autumn for the first time, ever.
About household scissors in the garden, Mel Bartholomew of Square Foot Gardening fame suggested getting as many pairs as you need from the dollar store and then stashing them where you'll be needing them, around the garden. I wouldn't do that where I live simply because it rains often enough to ruin the blades, but if the gardener had a way to protect them, they could be left out---I reckon. I do like the idea, though, of a pair of scissors dedicated to garden harvests, the way pruners are reserved for specific garden tasks, and cleaned between beds or crops so diseases or pests don't get passed around.
Thanks so much for this video! So clear, and so instructive! Wonderful!
Coriander is super easy to grow! You might end up with more coriander than cilantro, like I did!
@@ReSprout Isn't "coriander" the seed of the plant when the plant flowers and makes seed, and cilantro the leaf or leaves? If so, is seed production that heavy? (Do you do a lot of Mexican/meso-American or East Indian cooking?)
Anything special I need to know about growing coriander...? Or just let the seeds have at it, sort of weed-like?
Yeah, I found growing coriander to be effortless here in my area. Basically just let the cilantro flower, then go to seed, then dry on the stalk. I admit I don't use it as fast as I grow it, but I've been trying to eat more Indian so hopefully there will be an outlet soon!
@@ReSprout Does it need a longer growing season than my zone 6A-almost-B conditions provide, I wonder? This is Feb. 10, and I'm just now testing germination, although not of many herbs. Basil, from last year, going great guns, oregano just sitting there; four-year-old okra seed, which I'd always understood had to be replaced each growing season, ready to be potted up or planted *somewhere,* not sure where we have room under lights and okra's not a s mall plant.... Well, not anyone else's problem.
But it does feel good to see the seeds producing.
Also "Violet de Provence" artichokes (also not small plants!) seeds from last year, when they didn't get planted....
Looking eagerly for your next video.
And thanks so much!
Coriander/cilantro is a very quick crop. I can usually get a couple successions every year. I'm in 7A, so not that different from 6A. I'm sure you'll do fine with it! It's very forgiving!
I'm in Southwestern Ontario Canada! We have snow in the winter! Where are you?
Hi Brian, I'm in zone 7A on Long Island in New York. We definitely have snow here, though maybe not as much as you. Check out my winterizing video and you can witness me gardening in the snow (no joke)! 😂
Nice channel good luck dear
Clever girl❤
Thanks for sharing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thanks for watching!
What region are you in that spinach can survive outside during winter? How cold does it get?
Hi Jayden, I'm in 7A in the U.S. I keep a cold frame on the spinach and use a winter variety. Check out Elliot Coleman's book Four Season Harvest. He is doing the same thing is zone 5 in Maine! Crazy stuff!
I loved every thing you show me last year l try but the sweet potatoes l plant never grow lwill keep trying.
That's funny, I'm working on a sweet potato video right now. Yes, definitely keep trying! They're worth it!
It would be helpful to say what zone you live in as not all areas might be able 2overwinter
That's true! I'm in 7a!
Very helpful, thank you! Subscribed. Does this apply to Kale as well?
Daniel Dunning Glad this helped! Instead of scissors, you can actually pull kale off by hand by pulling the stem downwards. What I love about kale is it doesn’t bolt (go to seed) like spinach so if you’re looking for continuous harvest during the summer, kale is a better choice than spinach. The Quick Cut Greens Harvester MIGHT work on baby kale. And of course you can always clear-cut any crop.
Awesome I'm new to gardening. Thanks for sharing I could really use the help.😊
Thanks Linda! So glad this video helped you!
I cut some of my spinach for salad and have little yellow flowers growing now sprouting out from the plant , could you tell me what this is ? Thanx ..
Hey Christine, that means the spinach is done. It bolted. It is trying to create seeds (in the flowers) so it can reproduce now instead of making leaves. It's still edible, but it will be a lot less productive and probably bitter tasting. Best thing to do is mow it under or pull it out and start a new crop! Good luck!
@@ReSprout thanx so much for your advice , I will do that 😁❤
@@christinepatersonmelvin3985 You got this! 🙌
In my country🇯🇲Jamaica we make them run on bamboo and just stand and pick the leaves for cooking.
Wow, trellised spinach! Interesting!
CAN YOU CLEAR CUT AND HAVE REGROWTH AFTER 2 WEEKS IF IT HAS ALREADY BOLTED???
Hmmmmm.... maybe?? Try it! Let us know how it goes!
I have harvested some of my spinich plants a couple 0f weeks ago and I'm finding that they r not regrowing any of the spinich leaves on it atm.
Can u tell me wat I am doing wrong Asia's the 1st time of having my own vege garden
Hey Loretta! There's a couple of things that could be going on... You might just need to wait a little longer. Or, did your spinach bolt before you harvested? (Bolted spinach usually won't come back.) Are your plants under a lot of stress (heat, cold, drought, etc)? It might be that harvesting on top of everything else was just too much for the plant. How many of the leaves did you harvest? (If it was too many, the plant might give up, too). Hope that helps! With gardening it is almost never ONE thing. There's so many variables!
Should a spinach plant have a certain number of leaves before I start to cut some off or can I eat them as soon as I start to see the true leaves appear?
If you want to keep the plant alive I try to cut no more than 3/4 of its leaves. It COULD grow back if you cut the whole thing but the odds aren’t good. Now if you’re gonna turn the bed over and plant something else anyways, take ‘em all! Happy harvest! 😀
I never did hear u say how u stored ur spinach all winter
Hi Rick! Depends on how much I have. Sounds silly, but the first place food gets stored is our stomachs. 🤣 Whenever I do a harvest, that's when I make a lot of my favorite spinach recipes like spinach dip, saag paneer, Greek spinach casserole, spinach salads, things like that. After that, I freeze a lot in freezer bags in my chest freezer. And then I dehydrate a lot too. They dehydrated stuff I add to soups, stews, anything that is going to get boiled or cooked long enough to rehydrate it. Hope that helps!
@@ReSprout it does. Thanxx
Thank you very much. I am ready to harvest my first ever spinach plants in my newly constructed winter greenhouse. They were planted in december and are looking tasty. Do you recommend any specific brand of pruners? I will be harvesting tomatoes, kale, swiss chard, cucumber, bell peppers and spinach this year. I want to be less agresive with my plants than in the years past. However, I am a little overwhelmed with all of the pruner options. Do you advise any one brand or type. Or are you strictly a scissor and knife kinda girl? 😂
My favorite pruners are Felco definitely. Buy 'em once and keep 'em for a lifetime (unless you forget them under 2" of mulch 🤣). As far as scissors vs. knives vs. pruners, it really depends what I'm harvesting. For delicate smaller things like single spinach leaves or herbs, I'll use scissors or the Felco harvest shears (resprout.com/go/felco-shears/) since they have small tip. For bigger things with thicker stems (peppers, eggplants, squash), I'll use the regular Felco pruners (resprout.com/go/felco-pruners/). I use a harvest knife (or old steak knife) like I did in this video for when I'm grabbing a bunch of things (handful of greens, cabbages, lettuce heads) and need to saw wider than what a pruner can do. A knife is also easier to get close to the ground and go sideways. Hope that helps!
@@ReSprout that is great help! Thank you for the tips and tricks! I have since bought felcos. They are top notch for sure. Take care and all the best!
@@jahhead-piece-banga2530 That's great to hear! You won't regret it! There's nothing I hate more that futzy tools. Makes life so much harder when you don't have a good tool. :)
@@ReSprout amen to that!
How do I know our it is bolting
Hi MLT! It's hard to describe, but basically the new leaves, the ones on the top and in the center are TINY and pointed instead of round, and you'll see them start clustering around what looks like (and is) a flower stem with flower buds that will eventually flower. Basically, the plant just looks "weird" and like it's doing something. It also grows more vertically instead of out. If you google "spinach bolting" and look at the images, you'll get an idea of what it looks like.
Growing spinach for the first time and I’m fighting aphids! 😭😭😭
What to do if spinach has bolted?
It IS still edible technically, though it might be a little more bitter. Try it and see if you like it. I do a couple sowings a year of spinach. After they bolt, I pull out the whole bed and replant with new seeds. They're a quick crop. Depending on your zone, you should be able to get a couple crops that way.
I suspect that harvesting method nr.4 , with that tool, will give many a lot of back-pain. Why bend?
Yeah, I was thinking that too! But it looks so fast, you're probably not out there that long doing it.
Mine is starting to bolt. Can I still eat it
The taste changes a little bit, but it's not dangerous at all. Try it out and see if you like it!
OMG you look like Kirsten Bell!!!
Haha, you’re not the first person to say that! Thank you.
Hi from Australia, 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺love my norfolk spinach, thumbs up, (cute smile u have)
You’re very kind!
@@ReSprout ur very welcome
What seeds are you using? Looks GMO.
Hi Pajeet, the link for the seeds is in the description. They're from High Mowing Seeds and are organic and cannot be GMO by law thankfully! :-)
All cultivated plants are GMO. Selective breeding.
If I leave it will leaves get bitter
If it's already bolting probably, but if it hasn't bolted then no.
My plant got like 10 leaves 😂
Plant more! 😈
you look like simply nailogic
Haha! I get that from time to time! Please tell her! I tried to comment on her videos one time to introduce myself as her doppelgänger and there were just crickets. 🦗🤣
Boring
There are some other vegetable videos I have you might enjoy more! :-D
Very helpful, thanks!