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Organic Asian Spinach | Tatsoi
If you love spinach and have ever struggled to grow it, Asian spinach just might change your life as it did mine.
Asian spinach is so similar to spinach in both mild mineral flavor and buttery-crisp texture and Friends, she is SO much easier to grow. Her green spoon-shaped leaves and succulent stems we use exactly the same, fresh and cooked, as we do classic spinach.
Enjoy our Asian spinach video below!
So here's the thing: Asian spinach thrives in all seasons, germinating quickly in April and August alike. Classic spinach only thrives in the cool, moist spring and fall, refusing to germinate and then instantly bolting in the summer heat. For us here in the Finger Lakes, Zone 5, if you're tempted to sow classic spinach after Memorial Day, you are best served just waiting to sow 'til early September.
Similar to classic spinach, Asian spinach is exceptionally cold-tolerant and often overwinters under cold frames and row cover. As I write in late January, we're about to share some fresh-picked from the field for supper.
Hope you will one day, too!
Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,
& the whole Fruition Crew
21 days to baby leaf
45 to full leaf
Brassica rapa var narinosa
Why Asian Spinach is Our Favorite Spinach
Tatsoi Harvest (seed and greens)
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Organic Asian Spinach (Tatsoi)
Direct Sow (recommended): Early Spring, sow 20-30 seeds per foot 1/8" deep for baby greens, 6 seeds per foot thinned to 2 for full size. Keep moist to slow bolting; sow every 2-3 weeks until 1 month before frost for continual supply.
Transplant (for full size only): Early Spring, sow indoors, 2 seeds per cell and thin to 1; transplant 2-3 week old seedlings at 8-10".
Sowing Date: As soon as soil can be worked
Seed Depth: 1/8 inch
Days to Germination: 4-7
Days to Maturity: 8 days to microgreens, 21 days to baby and 40 days to braising.
Plant spacing after thinning: 8-10 inches
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tastes good; easy to grow 
