Spinach is one of the green vegetables commonly grown by many farmers and can be grown on the balcony or in the vegetable garden. Many friends ask, what are the methods and steps to plant spinach to have a high yield? The following points to note:

1, choose varieties

Spinach can be planted all year round, more varieties, in different seasons to choose the right varieties to ensure yield and quality. For example, when planting in winter, you should choose varieties that are hardy, late draw, and high yield. When planting spinach in the summer, you should choose varieties with strong heat resistance, high disease resistance and fast growth.

2, land fertilization

Spinach is suitable for growth in fertile soil, drainage and irrigation is convenient plots, water retention and fertilizer plots are more suitable for the growth of green vegetables, which is the basis of spinach high yield. After the harvest of the vegetables planted in the previous crop, the residual leaves and rotten roots should be taken out of the field to prevent the occurrence of increased diseases. The soil is sprinkled with farmyard fertilizer, then tilled and harrowed to make flat or raised beds.

3, sowing

Spinach seeding has two methods, sowing and strip sowing. Spreading is to make the ground well, the seeds evenly spread on the soil surface, and then lightly rake again, covered with a thin layer of nutrient soil. Strip sowing is to draw a furrow, spread the seeds along the furrow, and then cover the soil. Strip sowing is generally recommended for seed saving and management. Regardless of the method of sowing, it is recommended to water once before sowing, when the moisture is suitable for the emergence of seedlings.

Spinach can be sown with dry seeds. However, when sowing in the summer and fall seasons when the weather is hot, seed treatment should be done in order to improve the emergence rate. Chill the seeds in the refrigerator for a day before sowing, then germinate them at room temperature before sowing. After sowing in summer, you can cover with a layer of straw to shade and moisturize, and then uncover after seedlings emerge.

4, watering and fertilizer

Spinach grows two or three pounds of leaves, it is necessary to carry out a number of inter-seedling, remove the weak and diseased seedlings, and the final seedling spacing is 5-10 centimeters. If you plant large leaf spinach, you can plant a little denser, appropriate dense planting can increase the yield, round leaf spinach seedling spacing to be a little larger, thick leaves, good taste, good quality.

Spinach seedlings need less water and fertilizer, as long as there is no obvious lack of fertilizer or soil drought can not water fertilizer. By the time you grow four or five leaves, the growth rate increases, increasing the number of watering and fertilization to promote spinach growth. Fertilizer is mainly fast-acting nitrogen fertilizer, you can use 30-40 pounds of ammonium sulfate per acre to promote the growth of spinach stems and leaves.

Spinach in planting, farmers can follow the above 4 steps to planting, generally forty or fifty days to harvest , and the yield is also good.