I feel the same way but for opposite reasons in Houston. Starting at the end of April it's already in the 90s with 100% humidity every day. Nothing can grow in this intense, muggy heat! You can't plant any of the "summer" crops or they'll fry. You have to grow summer crops in early spring and late fall. Also I literally have nothing in the garden that hasn't gotten fungus at some point in the last year, because the humidity is just constant. It's hard to grow in the extreme ends of the weather spectrum!
I've never grown spinach. Is there a specific type you recommend? There's so many different types of spinach seeds that I don't know which ones to try first
lol, I can assure you places like Arizona, California, and Nevada is way hotter than Canada. you're lucky you're winters are extreme while us who lives in those 3 places have extreme summers
I love the sprinkle the seed method of planting instead of trying to space the spinach. I cook with a lot of spinach so I have to start growing my own...Gardening is almost like magic, here is a seed, months later here is dinner....Great video
Red Malibar spinach is a summer growing spinach for anyone who doesn’t have enough time left to grow regular spinach. In central Texas we go from winter to 2 weeks of spring & then full on summer lol.
Deer gardening from scratch thank you so much for the advice on warm weather spinach I'm in South Florida and it's hard to grow certain crops. Be blessed and stay healthy🌺🙏🌺
Oh boy. I feel like I’m doing everything wrong this year. I live Oregon as well and I’m zone 8b I believe. My soil seems like great soil but it gets compacted and I start to get nervous it’s too wet. I have everything planted but I’m so worried it’s not going to thrive. My passion for gardening of all types has blossomed through watching your videos!!!
Love these beginner videos! I'm been gardening for a long time, but find these super useful as refreshers and reminders and you always seem to offer a new tidbit of information that I might not have considered! Thanks Laura - going to plant my spinach right now. 🌱
You’re doing such a great job with these beginner videos. I’ve never been very confident with edible gardening, so I really wanted to improve this year, and your videos are helping. Thank you.
Good morning guys! 💚🤗 I am going to be planting spinach, radishes, and peas today or tomorrow! Very exciting. Hope you guys are staying safe and healthy.
Those are the exact crops growing in my vegtrug this spring!! Will probably succession plant some lettuce in place of the raddish soon, since it's ready to harvest so quickly.
Great information! Thanks for showing the difference in varieties. I think this would be very helpful for beginners! Russell making his cameo, as usual, is so dang cute! 😂🐱🙌💚🌿
I started mine outside late spring but keep in shade most of the day with a sun screen. Once it gets hot in Az ill probably move it inside to my tent. Great info video. Thx
Hi Laura...could you also do a video on how you harvest different vegetables. Like some get cut from the plant as you need it and some get pulled from the ground. How to recognize when to harvest. Thank you.
Debbie Ollila I had the same questions. Like for spinach and lettuce, when do you cut the leaves, how far down and how much? Is it one and done or do they flush back after the first cut?
Thank you so much here in Indiana we have cooler days and nights even a little Frost or snow flurries by Mother's Day so I always try to wait to put my tomatoes in but I'm going to go ahead and jump on the greens and the spinach while I can now and in so again in the fall thanks for the info God bless.
Coffee with Laura and some basic gardening how nice. It is good to see and hear the beginning of things and it's nice to see different spaces for growing as well as different varieties. This gives everyone a bit of something no matter where they are in gardening.
I love all the winter-growing vegetables. We have mild/cool weather here, with a very rare occasional frost. I just started my spinach batch about a week ago. I seeded very densely as well. Growing in containers is perfect for me for the exact reason you mentioned: I can move it and follow the sun if necessary. Excited to see the yield.
Hi there. I just wanted to say thank you for making an informative, yet efficient video. I thoroughly enjoyed the pace and felt it was not filled with ramblings 😊😊
Thank you. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I will drop spinach seeds this week. I have an area near my peppers and tomatoes to plant the spinach. Thanks again.
Hello and thanks Laura. My son and I planted spinach seeds under a grow light on 4-12-20 and then in a container yesterday! We watched many of your episodes (and others) and are hoping for a good crops. We also planted: peas, green beans, Brussel sprouts, carrots, lettuce, cabbage and cauliflower in container yesterday too! We're so excited:)
Good mourning Laura, I am enjoying your beginner videos so much. I am also planning to grow Herbs in a galvanized container like the one you have in this video. Could you do a video on planting herbs in containers too. Thank you.
More Russell please!! Thank you for all of the info. I really enjoy your videos. So informative, so professional and they move along at a good pace without being overly chatty. Your property is a landscapers dream.
Thank you so much for these gardening videos. I go back and watch them over and over and I planted my garden just like you. The only thing is I wish you would tell what the date is when you plant something.
I'm a beginner. I've grown spinach through cinder blocks directly on the ground. Worked better than when I tried in the deck the first time. It helped keep the rabbits away. Btw the peas idea is brilliant!
Thank you for this! It helps me be more confident that my little sisters and I will be more successful planting different things this year, for the first time. 💕
My first planting of spinach didn't germinate well in my raised bed. I just planted some more and I plan to put some in containers as well so we have a consistent harvest.
You have inspired me to try growing spinach. I found a cute galvanized bin at Costco the other day. I hope the rabbits will stay away. We have a lot of shade from neighbouring trees, but I do have a tiny bit of sunshine beside our shed. I’m excited to see how it goes. I live in South Eastern Ontario, things are starting to wake up here. I love your channel!
Spinach also does great in hanging wire baskets with sphagnum moss, and they also do very well mixed in with color in clay pots. I like a spinach is just a filler green plant, nice leaves, and some spinach comes in a reddish color which looks good with flowers planted in a pot or hanging basket. Be careful with the compost, you can have some tea manure in it, and people can get sick if they digest some Maneuvers too quickly
We just tilled up a big area that hasn't been worked in YEARS. We covered it in horse compost. (Full of worms!) Would you still recommend using starter fertilizer too since we just added rich compost?
Luv ALL ur videos💚💚💚 Here's a different spinach : Malabar Spinach is HOT SUN LOVING Veggie. It can vine if u let it go...practically grows he round here in FL lol🌞🌞🌞
This is so great. We are moving and I won’t be able to get a garden in with all the other things happening but I have galvanized containers so “ta da!!” I can plant and move my garden with me! You just give us great ideas!
Hi Laura, so glad you did this video. I planted lettuce last year and not sure about harvesting or if those that came up again were alright to eat. On your spinach, when or how often do you harvest your crop? Also how do you harvest, just leaves or cutoff from ground?
Hi! Is there a possibility that you will be making a video on how to grow tomatoes? 🍅 Yours always seem so healthy and productive. As a new gardener (especially interested in growing tomatoes 😉), any tips and tricks will help me out a lot! Thank you!
for any experienced gardener who can help me answer these 3 questions; can you grow spinach, jalepeno, and strawberries and raspberries in a garden bed together? and could sweet peas grow on a trellis on the side with them? and lastly is used coffee grounds a good fertilizer for these?
I grow cilantro early like spinach and plant a new crop about every 2 weeks so I always have cilantro. When it bolts, if you want the coriander let your cilantro go to seed and collect them when dry. I just replant the seeds. What do you use coriander for? Please let me know
This is a great idea! I've done it too. It works! Plus I also found some old school cartoons of Popeye the Sailor Man. My son loves spinach now because of Popeye lol!
Thank you for these beginner videos. I'm about to grow vegetables for the first time and keep referring to your videos for tips and encouragement. I bought the same trellis to grow pickling cucumbers on. Can I plant spinach under those as well? What about leaf lettuce? Do you have the trellis facing east/west or north south? Thank you for all you do to keep us wanting to explore new gardening ideas.
I am so inspired by your videos and I am thinking about starting a small raised bed vegetable garden. We have a lot of bunnies and squirrels around and I think they will eat and destroy this new garden. How do I protect these beds?
For people that want a spinach that does well in heat get some Egyptian spinach. The hotter it gets the better it does. I give mine no shade in Phoenix summers and it explodes in 115°
Will you thin the spinach seedlings after they germinate? It seems like you scattered a lot of seeds. Also, I’m SO grateful for the wealth of gardening knowledge and joy you provide on your channel! As a new gardener it always inspires me☺️
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Love the fact you’re not worried about spacing!
I get as much spinach as I can in the summertime. Gardening in Canada is an extreme sport... I swear
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I feel the same way but for opposite reasons in Houston. Starting at the end of April it's already in the 90s with 100% humidity every day. Nothing can grow in this intense, muggy heat! You can't plant any of the "summer" crops or they'll fry. You have to grow summer crops in early spring and late fall. Also I literally have nothing in the garden that hasn't gotten fungus at some point in the last year, because the humidity is just constant. It's hard to grow in the extreme ends of the weather spectrum!
I've never grown spinach. Is there a specific type you recommend? There's so many different types of spinach seeds that I don't know which ones to try first
lol, I can assure you places like Arizona, California, and Nevada is way hotter than Canada. you're lucky you're winters are extreme while us who lives in those 3 places have extreme summers
Too funny🤣🤣🤣
I love the sprinkle the seed method of planting instead of trying to space the spinach. I cook with a lot of spinach so I have to start growing my own...Gardening is almost like magic, here is a seed, months later here is dinner....Great video
So glad to see you using a kneeling pad Laura👍 Your knees will thank you when you’re an old gardener like me😊
Red Malibar spinach is a summer growing spinach for anyone who doesn’t have enough time left to grow regular spinach. In central Texas we go from winter to 2 weeks of spring & then full on summer lol.
Deer gardening from scratch thank you so much for the advice on warm weather spinach I'm in South Florida and it's hard to grow certain crops. Be blessed and stay healthy🌺🙏🌺
amity 150 same here! We skipped spring this year I guess. Lol
Anna Raime you’re welcome! 😊
I don't know the exact type ,but spinach plants that Bonnie sends to Walmart does really well in early summer too. I'm in Mississippi
Oh boy. I feel like I’m doing everything wrong this year. I live Oregon as well and I’m zone 8b I believe. My soil seems like great soil but it gets compacted and I start to get nervous it’s too wet. I have everything planted but I’m so worried it’s not going to thrive. My passion for gardening of all types has blossomed through watching your videos!!!
Love these beginner videos! I'm been gardening for a long time, but find these super useful as refreshers and reminders and you always seem to offer a new tidbit of information that I might not have considered! Thanks Laura - going to plant my spinach right now. 🌱
2:04 russel: i’m „scratching it in“ in the other bed 🐈😹
I was so distracted by his tail; you just know he knew he was in frame. ~ Lisa
You’re doing such a great job with these beginner videos. I’ve never been very confident with edible gardening, so I really wanted to improve this year, and your videos are helping. Thank you.
Russell is your best assistant. His presence deters many garden foes. Even when he only walks by, he leaves fur and scent that deters unwanted pests.
Awww .... I need a Russell in my life...❤️
Thanks for the video. I'm motivated now.
You should do "for beginners" series or playlist on RUclips on your channel.
Good morning guys! 💚🤗 I am going to be planting spinach, radishes, and peas today or tomorrow! Very exciting.
Hope you guys are staying safe and healthy.
Michigan Garden Gal finally planted my peas on Friday, planting spinach today , a little late but hope I still can get a good crop🤞🏻
Those are the exact crops growing in my vegtrug this spring!! Will probably succession plant some lettuce in place of the raddish soon, since it's ready to harvest so quickly.
Great information! Thanks for showing the difference in varieties. I think this would be very helpful for beginners! Russell making his cameo, as usual, is so dang cute! 😂🐱🙌💚🌿
WOW, I did not know spinach could grow through winter
I started mine outside late spring but keep in shade most of the day with a sun screen. Once it gets hot in Az ill probably move it inside to my tent.
Great info video. Thx
Hi Laura...could you also do a video on how you harvest different vegetables. Like some get cut from the plant as you need it and some get pulled from the ground. How to recognize when to harvest. Thank you.
Debbie Ollila I had the same questions. Like for spinach and lettuce, when do you cut the leaves, how far down and how much? Is it one and done or do they flush back after the first cut?
I think Laura eats bag lettuce from trader joes...just saying. Her crops don't look edible or harvested...
@@sinmore11 she has harvesting videos and they do look edible. 🤨
Didn’t ever realize there were two types of spinach. Thanks for the info. Good video. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
I just love your channel. What I love about it is that all you make you vegetable garden look so attractive that you want to garden in it.
Thank you so much here in Indiana we have cooler days and nights even a little Frost or snow flurries by Mother's Day so I always try to wait to put my tomatoes in but I'm going to go ahead and jump on the greens and the spinach while I can now and in so again in the fall thanks for the info God bless.
Coffee with Laura and some basic gardening how nice. It is good to see and hear the beginning of things and it's nice to see different spaces for growing as well as different varieties. This gives everyone a bit of something no matter where they are in gardening.
im growing a ton of spinach. i love spinage and its so so good for you. so im growing a ton.
My babe started his spinach growing journey and I’m so excited 💖💖😂
I see now that I've been messing up by trying to "plant" the seeds instead of scratching them in. I'll fix my method now! Thank you!
Thanks Laura getting ready to plant if we could get a few days without rain during containers and raised beds!
I love all the winter-growing vegetables. We have mild/cool weather here, with a very rare occasional frost. I just started my spinach batch about a week ago. I seeded very densely as well. Growing in containers is perfect for me for the exact reason you mentioned: I can move it and follow the sun if necessary. Excited to see the yield.
I'm sooooo going to do that scratching in method! Thanks!
Spinich really is fun to grow . Like radishes and basil. So easy and rewarding for beginners
Hi there. I just wanted to say thank you for making an informative, yet efficient video. I thoroughly enjoyed the pace and felt it was not filled with ramblings 😊😊
Thank you. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I will drop spinach seeds this week. I have an area near my peppers and tomatoes to plant the spinach. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for doing the beginner videos and including instructions for containers.
Hello and thanks Laura. My son and I planted spinach seeds under a grow light on 4-12-20 and then in a container yesterday! We watched many of your episodes (and others) and are hoping for a good crops. We also planted: peas, green beans, Brussel sprouts, carrots, lettuce, cabbage and cauliflower in container yesterday too! We're so excited:)
Awww Laura you are a very good teacher. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Good mourning Laura, I am enjoying your beginner videos so much. I am also planning to grow Herbs in a galvanized container like the one you have in this video. Could you do a video on planting herbs in containers too. Thank you.
If you look back at her videos she has container herb plating for you to watch.
Wow! Thanks for this! Love this corner of the world you create. Stay healthy everyone 😄.
More Russell please!! Thank you for all of the info. I really enjoy your videos. So informative, so professional and they move along at a good pace without being overly chatty. Your property is a landscapers dream.
Thank you! This video was very helpful. Planted my first spinach and lettuces from seed and very exciting to see seedings coming up.
Perfect timing, I’m planting spinach seeds today!
I love that food plants can be just as beautiful as any other plant! That American spinach is perty. ♥️
Thank you for the beginner videos they are very much needed and you are my favorite to watch
This was such a helpful video!! New veggie gardener here and I appreciate these types of videos.
first time I will try to plant this , thanks for sharing this
You’ve given me great advice and I will get on it mid march up here in Toronto Canada
Spinach is my favorite! These are excellent tips for growing Spinach the correct way!
Thank you so much for these gardening videos. I go back and watch them over and over and I planted my garden just like you. The only thing is I wish you would tell what the date is when you plant something.
Thank you for the reminder to plant some spinach. I never knew there was a difference in those types of spinach.
I sowed my first spinach leaves this year!! How are you always on point? Psychic much ❤️🥰
I thougt that me alone had miss Russel yesterday 😀😀🐹👌nice video hope l can grow next year 😊for the first time when I can reach the gardencenters .
I'm a beginner. I've grown spinach through cinder blocks directly on the ground. Worked better than when I tried in the deck the first time. It helped keep the rabbits away. Btw the peas idea is brilliant!
great breakdown! We are about some spinach ourselves and look forward to getting a good crop
It's amazing how your plants are growing and are those strawberries I see? Wow.
So glad you're making veggie garden videos!! Thank you!
I mix fresh spinach into soups, spaghetti and all kinds of dishes to get more veggies into our diet.
Thank you for this! It helps me be more confident that my little sisters and I will be more successful planting different things this year, for the first time. 💕
Growing lots more veggies, so this is great because I need all the help I can get!
My first planting of spinach didn't germinate well in my raised bed. I just planted some more and I plan to put some in containers as well so we have a consistent harvest.
Lovely Lady and she does Gardening Too !
I love it when Russell the cat shows up he's so cute
Hi Laura ! Can you please make a video about how we can extract and save lilac fragrance???
Thank you! I have tried to grow leaf lettuce and spinach for 3 years! In my defense the weather has been a huge issue!
Thanks Laura! This is giving me courage! I was seeding them indoors and will try doing it out today to "experiment!"
I am thinking spinach can be grown again in the late summer. Tfs Laura!
You have inspired me to try growing spinach. I found a cute galvanized bin at Costco the other day. I hope the rabbits will stay away. We have a lot of shade from neighbouring trees, but I do have a tiny bit of sunshine beside our shed. I’m excited to see how it goes. I live in South Eastern Ontario, things are starting to wake up here. I love your channel!
I sometimes get leaf lettuce come back the next year and i'm a zone 2-3. Pretty amazing if you ask me.
Good timing on this video! Now I need some inspiration on container videos for flowers. I;ve already binge watched the old ones. LOL for years.
Thank you! We are growing spinach for only the second time so any tips are helpful. Can’t wait to make our own salads soon!
Spinach also does great in hanging wire baskets with sphagnum moss, and they also do very well mixed in with color in clay pots. I like a spinach is just a filler green plant, nice leaves, and some spinach comes in a reddish color which looks good with flowers planted in a pot or hanging basket. Be careful with the compost, you can have some tea manure in it, and people can get sick if they digest some Maneuvers too quickly
Well done lots of info thanks for sharing lovely color of hair as well.. things we all need to know. Love the container idea
Thank you for sharing the great information on spinach.
We just tilled up a big area that hasn't been worked in YEARS. We covered it in horse compost. (Full of worms!) Would you still recommend using starter fertilizer too since we just added rich compost?
Thanks for the video - well-timed too as I’m sowing spinach today! X
Thanks for the video. I would be careful with the holes in the galvanized steel. Will eventually rust.
Luv ALL ur videos💚💚💚
Here's a different spinach : Malabar Spinach is HOT SUN LOVING Veggie. It can vine if u let it go...practically grows he round here in FL lol🌞🌞🌞
Those leaves are so pretty ❤️
What a nice teaching spirit. New subscriber. Literally new to planting lol.
Great information on cool weather planting. Thank you.
such a small mini garden
This is so great. We are moving and I won’t be able to get a garden in with all the other things happening but I have galvanized containers so “ta da!!” I can plant and move my garden with me! You just give us great ideas!
Prompt & concise. I appreciate you!
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Hi Laura and Aaron! I'm really enjoying the beginner videos. Thank you for sharing!
Hi Laura, so glad you did this video. I planted lettuce last year and not sure about harvesting or if those that came up again were alright to eat. On your spinach, when or how often do you harvest your crop? Also how do you harvest, just leaves or cutoff from ground?
Great video! You made it really simple and I appreciate the description of the different varieties.
Good video. It's informative and not too wordy or long. Simple recording and editing too.
Hi! Is there a possibility that you will be making a video on how to grow tomatoes? 🍅 Yours always seem so healthy and productive. As a new gardener (especially interested in growing tomatoes 😉), any tips and tricks will help me out a lot! Thank you!
for any experienced gardener who can help me answer these 3 questions; can you grow spinach, jalepeno, and strawberries and raspberries in a garden bed together? and could sweet peas grow on a trellis on the side with them? and lastly is used coffee grounds a good fertilizer for these?
I love spinach ,thank you
your hair is so pretty!
Love the sprinkle and scratch way you did, now I don’t have to do rows lol yay! Laura when is the best time to cut the younger leaves?
Hi Laura
Could you make a video on how to grow and care for coriander? Thanks!
I grow cilantro early like spinach and plant a new crop about every 2 weeks so I always have cilantro. When it bolts, if you want the coriander let your cilantro go to seed and collect them when dry. I just replant the seeds. What do you use coriander for? Please let me know
I like your rock you've placed, looks clean. How do you manage the weeks that come up during the year?
When you add baby spinach as a pizza topping, it becomes really sweet. Even picky eaters (toddlers) love it! My experience anyway! 🍕
This is a great idea! I've done it too. It works! Plus I also found some old school cartoons of Popeye the Sailor Man. My son loves spinach now because of Popeye lol!
@@kishapotts6869 Great idea!
You can add spinach to anything after watching Popeye cartoons!
Thank you for these beginner videos. I'm about to grow vegetables for the first time and keep referring to your videos for tips and encouragement. I bought the same trellis to grow pickling cucumbers on. Can I plant spinach under those as well? What about leaf lettuce? Do you have the trellis facing east/west or north south? Thank you for all you do to keep us wanting to explore new gardening ideas.
You have so much good information.
can you have a video how to harvest your last year's spinach...do you do only the outside leaves or cut it down..or pull out the whole plant
I am so inspired by your videos and I am thinking about starting a small raised bed vegetable garden. We have a lot of bunnies and squirrels around and I think they will eat and destroy this new garden. How do I protect these beds?
For people that want a spinach that does well in heat get some Egyptian spinach. The hotter it gets the better it does. I give mine no shade in Phoenix summers and it explodes in 115°
Will you thin the spinach seedlings after they germinate? It seems like you scattered a lot of seeds. Also, I’m SO grateful for the wealth of gardening knowledge and joy you provide on your channel! As a new gardener it always inspires me☺️
Love your Short , detailed videos !, ❤️🙏🏻. Thank you from Morgan Hill CA
Nice job!! Looks really good, I’ll have to try that 🥬🥬😉