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37 of the Best Spinach Cultivars
22.06.2023 - 13:06 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
37 of the Best Spinach Cultivars to Grow in Your GardenGood ol’ spinach. It’s so nutritious that it has become an avatar for healthy eating. It thrives in weather too cold for lettuce, and it matures so fast that you can have multiple harvests each season.
There’s so much to love about the versatile little greens.
Know what I don’t like about spinach? There are just so many darn good cultivars to choose from!
I have stood at the seed display at my local nursery, paralyzed with indecision. Eventually, I just selected a half dozen packets at random and skedaddled out of there. You can never have too many spinach plants, right?
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To save you from enduring the same harrowing experience, we’ve compiled 37 of the best options out there.
Here are the cultivars we’ll discuss up ahead:
37 Favorite Spinach VarietiesSpinach is categorized by leaf type. Savoyed types are heavily wrinkled, while semi-savoyed varieties are more subtly wrinkled. Flat (or smooth) types, as you probably guessed, lack wrinkling.
Additionally, there is usually a range of days that seed purveyors and packets will tell you is suitable for harvesting your spinach.
The earlier date is for harvesting the tender baby leaves, and the later date is for cutting the entire mature plant all at once.
Downy mildew often plagues spinach, especially in the winter.
If you struggle with this in the garden, look for a resistant cultivar and be sure to rotate your crops so you don’t grow spinach more than once every three years in the same place.
On to the cultivars!
1. AcadiaThe semi-savoy ‘Acadia’ has glossy, cupped, oval, deep green leaves. Each leaf is fairly petite,
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