How to grow spinach on a balcony
In detail for netizens who are concerned about how to grow spinach on a balcony and the experience of maintaining green plants in terms of spinach planting methods in autumn and winter, the specific details are as follows:
In winter, one of the most troublesome things for Flower is eating, because Flower's family always stores a lot of cabbages and radishes at home every winter, so when winter comes, it's a endless feast of radishes and cabbages. Many northern gardening friends should have a deep understanding of this, right? So much so that Flower always feels repulsed by radishes and cabbages every winter!
In order to improve Flower's diet, Flower tried to grow a variety of vegetables in winter, either with low yield or unable to grow, directly frozen to death... After many experiments, Flower finally found a kind of vegetable that is very suitable for growing on a balcony in winter, which is spinach!
Spinach is very nutritious and good for the body when consumed regularly. It can be eaten cold, made into soup, or stir-fried with meat, and it tastes delicious. Of course, what Flower likes most about spinach is its strong cold resistance. Even the low temperatures of winter in the north cannot hinder its growth, making it a very good choice for winter balcony planting!
In addition to spinach's good cold resistance, it can also adapt well to short-daylight conditions. Coincidentally, winter itself has shorter daylight hours, and since it is planted on a balcony instead of in the open air, the daylight hours are even more limited. This condition is not very friendly to other vegetables, but spinach can adapt to this environment.
How to grow spinach on a balcony
Moreover, it has a relatively short growth cycle, and it can be harvested in no time after planting. Therefore, if gardening friends want to grow some vegetables to eat in winter, spinach is definitely a very good choice!
If you want to grow spinach on a balcony, there are many issues to consider, and the first point is the selection of spinach varieties. As mentioned earlier by Flower, spinach has a very short growth cycle and can grow many batches in a year, so from a variety standpoint, it can be divided into spring, summer, autumn, and winter types, and each type of spinach has different cold resistance. Gardening friends need to choose the most suitable spinach variety for their local climate conditions.
The sowing time of spinach is also quite particular, because if it's too early, the temperature is still relatively high and it's easy to result in spinach not sprouting, while if it's too late, the temperature is too low and it will also affect the growth of spinach. In fact, the best sowing time is around mid-October, and gardening friends who read this article can go ahead and plant right now!