Comparison Chart
Spinach Varieties | Planting Program Comparison Chart
Follow Johnny's Spinach Succession Planting Program, compiled from data collected by our Research & Trialing Teams and designed to illustrate which spinach varieties to plant, grow, and harvest in sequence, allowing you to extend your spinach harvest across the seasons.
Key Growing Information
Spinach | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, this reference contains the essential information for growing spinach from seed. Read more for a successful harvest!
Key Growing Information
Orach (French Spinach) | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, this reference contains the essential information for growing orach (Atriplex hortensis) specialty salad greens, aka French spinach or mountain spinach from seed. Read more for a successful harvest!
Follow these recommendations for successful direct-seeding of spinach with your Jang-JP seeder and the Spinach Seed Roller Pack, which includes the 2 rollers we most commonly use on our Research Farm for production of baby leaf, teen, and bunching size spinach.
Key Growing Information
Malabar Spinach | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, this reference contains the Key Growing Information for production of red- and green-stemmed Malabar spinach vine from seed: instructions for sowing, transplanting, pest and disease control, and harvesting. Read more for a successful harvest!
Comparison Chart
Spinach Varieties | Comparison Chart / Planting Program (PDF)
A downloadable, print-friendly version of our Spinach Varieties Comparison and Planting Program. Includes information on ideal sowing/harvesting seasons, days to maturity, color, growth, disease resistances, including powdery mildew races, and bolting rate.
This easy-to-use, ergonomic, and adjustable device allows you to quickly and efficiently harvest 30"-wide beds of lettuces, greens, mescluns, herbs, spinach, and other baby leaf crops. Clean, precise cutting, directly into bags or crates.
Join former Trial Technician Steve Rodrigue in a review of a recent season extension trial, conducted here at Johnny's Research Farm in Central Maine. This review focuses on a number of chicory and spinach varieties available from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Key recommendations for heat-tolerant, cool-weather varieties, and cool-weather-loving crops successfully through summer's heat, from Johnny's Research & Trialing Team.
Use this chart to schedule your planting dates of vegetable crops for overwintering. Chart depicts crops from 3 levels of reliability for success.
Comparison Chart
Winter-Harvest Crops | Planting Chart for a Seamless Winter Harvest
Use our chart to schedule plantings of your winter-harvest crops, and enjoy a seamless harvest all winter long.
Tips for gaining efficiencies on the farm from 3 of Johnny's favorite efficiency experts in the field: Anne Mefferd, farmer & owner of One Drop Farm in Cornville, ME; Jean-Martin Fortier, farmer, author & owner of Les Jardins de la Grelinette, St-Armand, Québec; and Michael Kirkpatrick, owner of Kilpatrick Family Farm, Middle Granville, NY.