If you want to enjoy create, think about planting a house vegetable garden. Many leafy greens flourish in the Bay Area, and red-stem spinach (spinacia oleracea) is a sweet-tasting, cool-weather vegetable full of iron, calcium and vitamin A. This assortment of spinach is appropriate for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s zone 9, including sun-scarce San Francisco.
Soak seeds in a cup of compost tea for 20 to 30 minutes. Germination is hastened by soaking the seeds.
Pour of soil that is humus-enriched or compost throughout your garden bed’s topsoil. Before the humus is completely incorporated, to the upper 6 to 8 inches of dirt, work the humus Having a garden spade. From the Bay Area, plant spinach seeds outside in February. Spinach requires at least six months of cool weather to flourish and is cold-hardy.
Add a chopstick or an unsharpened pencil about 1/2-inch deep to the tilled soil. Create more holes approximately 1 inch apart until you have enough holes.
Put one seed and cover the holes with displaced dirt.
Saturate the floor with a mister so you moisten the floor but do not disturb the seeds.
Water the plants every few days depending on rain. Spinach grows when it will even withstand bolting and remains wet.
Thin the seedlings to approximately 6 inches apart when they are 2 inches high. Spread mulch around the seedlings to keep moisture.
When the plants begin to grow at about 35 to 50 days harvest the leaves. The plant will continue to grow, providing you with leafy greens for several weeks. Harvest the poultry plant by cutting it below the leaf, when the weather warms.