Winter Spinach - Grow Your Own wants your advice

[pigletwillie]

Craig, the Grow Your Own Editor is after any hint/tips/advice for growing Wintrer spinach for a future issue of Grow Your Own.

How do you sow it, protect it, what varieties are best? Let us know.

As usual the best will be published in the next issue of Grow Your Own. This is a good advert for the Grapevine and you could have your advice and name in print.
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[Vegmonkey]

Remember to sow Leaf Beat/Perpetual Spinach at a spacing of 15 by 30 (rows) and 1cm deep. It needs to be covered with a cloche in winter to extend the cropping period, but doesn't tend to go to seed as quickly as normal spinach. From what I gather though, some varieties can withstand some frost.

Sow sep/oct undercover, and pick sparingly, or the plant will take too much of a hit, and not survive.

Loving the blog by the way piglet, i want your pizza oven!

[Rowan]

Child-friendly advice on spinach - don't grow it, just compost the seeds in the packet!