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Wed, Jun 20, 12 at 22:11
| My spinach is now going to seed and I started pulling them up, but one of my friends say she just leaves them go to seed and they start new plants so that you don't have to replant. Is this true? Hope so. Thanks for your help. Barb |
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- Posted by Masbustelo 5b Illinois (My Page) on Wed, Jun 20, 12 at 23:36
| Barb It is a little bit unorthodox, but quite plausible. Spinach has male and female plants, so after the female plants are fertilized the male plants die first. So you would pull and remove them. Then under your proposal the seed bearing plants would dry and drop their seed and when conditions became amenable sprout once again. The spinach would grow in the same spot once again. You could also harvest the seed and replant where and when you want to. Your friends system isn't a bad method for Indiana where it can easily be planted in the fall and overwintered till spring. Maybe you could get a fall harvest as well. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Spinach gone to seed.
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- Posted by egganddart49 6a NY (My Page) on Thu, Jun 21, 12 at 1:00
| If the spinach is a hybrid though, its seeds wouldn't be the same as the plants they came from. |
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| And it's much too hot now for spinach to germinate. |
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| You don't have to let the seed fall and sit in the heat (where some of it may germinate but quickly bolt), you can collect the seeds and save them for fall planting. Birds are currently eating my spinach seeds(!), all heirlooms (Tyee and Bloomsdale), but I'll have plenty to collect for fall. |
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| Could happen, if you water the bed everyday. I had collards that went to seed every year & I would cut the blooming stalks off. One year I let them stay & dry out, in June the pod were dry, so I broke the stalks & the seeds sound like rain. By July the 3rd when I went to pick greens for the 4th, I found hundred of tiny two leaf seedlings. I keep them watered, but did nothing else & about 25 grew large enough to harvest greens. I did not baby them, let the strong make it on their own. Some of those plant grew for 3 years. |
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