Organic Butterflay Spinach
20 days to baby leaf harvest
45 days to full leaf harvest
Spinacea oleracea
Description
We just love the melt-in-your-mouth deep green leaves of Organic Butterflay Spinach, full of deep mineral succulence at any stage from baby leaf to full-size leaves. All spinach grows best in cool temperatures but Butterflay is exceptional, easily surviving uncovered in our gardens each winter.
At Fruition, we sow spinach in September for a fall harvest that will overwinter and re-grow with the sweetest, most tender leaves as soon as the snows melt. Even if you don’t fall-sow your spinach, tuck them in first thing in spring when you plant your peas to enjoy the maximum harvest before the heat of summer inspires them to bolt in June.
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Organic Butterflay Spinach
Direct Seed: Early spring & early fall, sow 10 seeds/foot, ½” deep & thin to 2 in rows 12” apart for full size plants. Sow 2 seeds/inch for baby spinach, harvest in 3-5 weeks.
Transplant: Early spring & late summer indoors, sow 2 seeds/cell thinned to 1. Harden off (reduce water & temp 3-7 days) before transplanting out at full-size spacing below.
Sowing Date: early Spring & early Fall
Seed Depth: 1/2 inch
Days to Germination: 5 days at 77°F, 21 days at 50°F
Days to Maturity: 20 days to baby, 45 days to full size
Plant spacing after thinning: 5-6 inches
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Joan Huyser-Honig –
Although I’m a good gardener, I’ve rarely had success raising spinach–until I planted Organic Butterflay Spinach from Fruition. It’s been an especially good cold frame crop this spring, thanks to their email newsletter section for overwintering it.
Heather (verified owner) –
YaaHOoooooo! Wishing your baskets full of spinach in this and many seasons to come 🙂 -The Fruition Team
Richard Nuzzi (verified owner) –
I agree with Joan! I had never had much success with spinach, but Butterflay is incredibly abundant and delicious, with no oxalic acid teeth-fuzziness. I’ll plant a PILE more in my pit greenhouse here in the foothills west of Boulder, CO.