Spinach was in my list since quite sometime so I wanted to start spinach as the first thing after i came back.
I picked up some seeds from Lalbagh and was all set to start. This time I wanted to try the soil mix recommended by Mel Bartholomew of Square foot gardening fame. Its called “Mel’s Mix” .
- Mel’s mix:
1/3 of Vermiculite
1/3 of Coir pith.
1/3 of Compost.
I didn’t have home made compost with me so I bought a bag of compost from lalbagh.
I mixed all the three thoroughly and filled the containers with them. I used the old Fruit juice containers like Tropicana. The head of the containers are cut and i use the bottom 3/4th.
The spinach seeds look like this. They are large enough to handle them individually.
I sowed them two per hole and two such holes per container.
The spinach seeds were sown half inch deep and covered with fine vermiculite. It took 5-6 days for the first sprout to show up and them all of them eventually started.
After 10 days, they look like this
I plan to keep these seedlings in the same containers. I came to know that spinach resent transplant so I am not going to do that.
I am planning to start bell peppers and tomatoes in the coming days.
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Hi!
Been long since have seen your post… been waiting. Hope your Spinach-es satisfy your stomach soon. Good luck!
Hi Chandramouli,
Yes its so long. How have you been? How is your garden coming along? Share if you have something interesting going with your garden..
Spinach’es are doing well and will post their pics during harvest time
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