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Winter Tunnel Spinach Varieties
Hi, I'm Rachel Katz, and I'm the Crop Specialist for Leafy Greens here at Johnny's, and today we're going to compare winter tunnel spinach varieties.
All of our winter tunnel spinach varieties have high resistance to downy mildew.
'Space'
'Space' is a variety that we've carried for a very long time. It's a real fan favorite. It comes in both organic and conventional seed.
It has this kind of lighter green color and a little bit of a thinner leaf, but it's fast-growing and slow-bolting. It produces spinach in every growing slot, which makes it really valuable. You don't have to think about where to plant it. You just plant it everywhere if you want.
'Tragopan'
'Tragopan' has these nice, large oval to angular leaves. It's very fast growing. It's our fastest growing variety for the winter tunnel. It has very long petioles, which are good for bunching or baby leaf for full size.
It's a nice, dark color. It has a very upright habit, and because it's so fast, it's our highest yielding variety in the tunnel.
'Gerenuk'
'Gerenuk' is a nice semi-savoy variety with this really lovely dark green, glossy, kind of bright color. It has a nice round leaf with a very handsome savoy.
In addition to having high resistance to downy mildew, it has good field tolerance to Cladosporium and Stemphylium.
'Rangitoto'
'Rangitoto' is also a nice semi-savoy variety for the winter tunnel. It's upright, similar to 'Gerenuk'.
It has these nice round leaves. They're a little bit more cupped, a little bit brighter green color. And it's also fast-growing and makes a really nice winter tunnel variety.
'Sunangel' and 'Tarsier'
We also have 'Sunangel' and 'Tarsier'. They're both very similar varieties. They're very refined, kind of medium growth speed with these very nice round leaves, semi-savoy, not very curved, with an upright habit and kind of intermediate-ly long petioles.
'Sunangel' has resistance to white rust and Stemphylium and 'Tarsier' also has resistance to Stemphylium, which makes them good choices if those are things that you struggle with.
Trialing
To find you the best winter tunnel spinach varieties, we have a very robust trialing program where we plant multiple trials a season and harvest sometimes almost weekly to find the highest producing with the best agronomic quality varieties around.
We hope you try some of these and find that they work for you.
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