Comments | gardening: The very first thing I planted this season.

big_girl in gardening

The very first thing I planted this season.

May 21, 2009 17:13

I directly sowed Bloomsdale Long-Standing and Hybrid Baby's Leaf spinach waaaay back in the end of March. The problem (besides the birds deciding that crapping on spinach is the best way to crap) is that it seems the 'long' in Long-Standing seems to mean the stalk. It has grown long with few leaves and now it is bolting.

( A picture is worth two birds in a bush with one stone. )

vegetable: spinach, vegetable: bean

Comments 7

eqfe May 21 2009, 21:33:49 UTC

long standing means it does not go to seed quickly when the weather starts getting warm.

big_girl May 21 2009, 21:40:42 UTC

LIARS!

Perhaps I have it mixed up and the Baby's Leaf is the one going to seed and the Long-Standing are the ones not.

eqfe May 22 2009, 00:14:40 UTC

Truthfully it never seems to last much longer than any other spinach. Now's the time to plant New Zealand and Malabar spinach, the latter grows up poles nicely and yields ridiculous quantities.

rebbyribs May 21 2009, 22:53:51 UTC

Maybe try giving the spinach a bit of shade?

Are your beans bush or pole?

big_girl May 21 2009, 23:03:40 UTC

One is bush, the rest are pole.

rebbyribs May 21 2009, 23:18:21 UTC

I probably wouldn't thin them out if they're pole beans then, because they won't be crowding each other as much as they grow up.

stargazersilent May 22 2009, 16:53:56 UTC

If it helps, my Kentucky Blue pole beans say to thin to 3". My soy beans say to thin to 2". So, I think your beans are fine, if that's a 2x2 in the corner there.