{"id":1998,"date":"2012-10-19T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T07:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2012-10-19T10:05:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T08:05:16","slug":"spinach-sowing-growing-and-harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"spinach &#8211; sowing, growing and harvesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2012\/10\/spinach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1999\" title=\"spinach\" src=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2012\/10\/spinach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2012\/10\/spinach.jpg 700w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2012\/10\/spinach-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2012\/10\/spinach-437x300.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>did you know that for some vegetables there are two seasons per year? spinach for example you can <em><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=460\">sow in march<\/a><\/em> and harvest in may\/june the first time and a second time you can sow it in august and harvest in september\/october. we also\u00a0grew lettuces, radishes and teltow turnips a second time this year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>spinach is really an all-rounder. i still remember the<em><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=870\"> b\u00f6rek<\/a><\/em>\u00a0i made with the spring harvest. some days ago i had a japanese spinach soup with the second harvest. i will share this recipe with you soon. but you can as well do all the recipes based on chard i recommended in previous posts.<\/p>\n<p>spinach is as easy to grow as chard is. the only enemies are aphids (we had them only in spring) and snails. you have to sow spinach in rows with a distance of 25 cm between the rows and 10 cm distance within the row. usually we thin the spinach out by the time it reaches a size of 10 cm. the remaining spinach plants will double their size at least.<\/p>\n<p>when <em><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=307\">planning your garden<\/a><\/em>\u00a0keep in mind that spinach wilts enormously when you cook it, so you have to sow and grow much more than you may think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>did you know that for some vegetables there are two seasons per year? spinach for example you can sow in march and harvest in may\/june the first time and a second time you can sow it in august and harvest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=1998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,10],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-autumn","category-gardening","category-spring","tag-spinach","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}