When to Cut Spinach in Tennessee, and How Long It Really Keeps
In Tennessee, cut spinach in two windows. The spring window runs from a mid-March sowing until daytime highs start passing 75 F.
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In Tennessee, cut spinach in two windows. The spring window runs from a mid-March sowing until daytime highs start passing 75 F.
Sow Maryland winter salads in late summer and early fall, working backward from a first fall frost that NOAA places between October 26 and November 5.
Spinach, mâche, claytonia, kale and the hardy Asian greens will carry a Maryland winter with little help.
In Manitoba, winter salads go in the ground in late summer, not spring. The date you count back from is the average first fall frost, September 22 at the…
In South Carolina, spinach gets cut in two windows: spring, before highs settle above 75 F, and late fall, ahead of the first frost. Summer is closed.
The best winter salads for Manitoba are the cold-hardy leaf crops: mâche, claytonia, spinach and kale, with arugula and mizuna as a second tier.
Sow winter salads in Maine in late summer, early enough that the plants are nearly full size before the first fall freeze.
In Saskatchewan, cut spinach in two short bursts: late spring into early summer, and again in early autumn before the first frost. Midsummer is closed.
Maine’s winter salad question comes down to one number: 15.6°F. That is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month at the Portland reference station…
Sow winter salads in Louisiana through the cool months. Start in fall once nights cool, and finish spring sowings before warming weather pushes lettuce…