Spinach for many harvests, sow early or late, space for long lived plants 

Dear sir, you are the antidote to the world’s madness. I can watch these for hours. Thank you.

Your an amazing teacher. I am amazed at your knowledge. I learn so much from you. Bless you for sharing.

These videos are extremely helpful and filled with information. They are also very calming to watch. I can't thank you enough for these!

Now I know why I've never managed to grow spinach. Sowed it too late!

I want to thank you for your speaking whilst planting! You went straight to the point and kept it quite informative all of the way through! I’m subscribing !

5 slugs didn't like the video.

I tried my first no dig garden last year and the one neighbor called me a kook....but it did tremendously well!

There is something very satisfying about watching you plant out seedlings! You have a well honed fluid movement 😊

Did anyone else notice the white seed tray turned into a black one at the beginning 🤣 love Charles learning so so much 👍🏻😊

Very informative. The way you deliver the subject matter is just amazing. Thanks for sharing, Sir.

I love all your videos Charles, i wish i could be there with you and learn EVERYTHING. But Im satisfied to look at all these Great videoes. Im learning so much from you🙌 Thank you very much for all this valuble informasion 👏🤩

I'm learning so much from you Charles. I keep a note book while watching your videos writing down the tips you give us. I'm so glad I found your channel. You have given me so much confidence thank you

You have the most excellent, informative and thorough videos. I so appreciate your patience to wait through all the stages of plant development to compile all the clips into one single video. Very helpful!

I would like to ask, where do you find your lovely styrofoam flats? I am in the USA, and have not seen them sold with square shapes, only round, and even those are quite hard to find. Thank you for posting so many helpful and useful ideas. We've gardened since childhood, but are now growing for marketing. You've helped us see so many things we weren't doing, that we can add in and be much more successful. Thank you again. God bless you.

I am now asking around for a broken spade handle... forgive me - my ancestry is scottish

Hi Charles, In this video you showed new spinach plants being sown and planted out in early spring and also the older plants which had overwintered and were producing a lovely crop of fresh spring greens, but at what point do you decide to pull up those old plants, is it when they start to flower in summer? Thanks Sandy

Charles, You shld do a video on seedlings in nursery pot. how is too big or too late to be xplanted. Especially how is the root and leaves is good for xplant ? Sometime i xplanted but the potting mix will just fall apart when i pushed plug out; while some were already obviously root bound. Also tell us how to xplant if the root bound is obvious or serious.. just plug it in or have to break the root or can cut the root off so that it can grow outward ? what to do ? or is it worth xplanting ? Pls do a video on it.. not much such info. I often encounter this issue... Thx.

Hii, You have a magix green fingers. I can't grow spinach well, they all either not growing like the stunted one you have shown in the video or they bolt even before growing. What variety of the spinach you used ? Is matador spinach a true spinach ? it is every where, but the germination is not that great. u mentioned leaves beet.. what is that ?

I’ve binged watched your videos all morning, and they are so serene and thrilling! Happy to meet a fellow gardener with such a passion for growing! 🙏🏾

Great video! Going to the market for seedlings and seeds tomorrow so spinach it certainly is :) Thanks for the great teachings Charles. You are an inspiration and so pleasant to listen to. Untill the next time

Man, I have had spinach growing all over my backyard like weeds. I don't even have to water them at all and big patches just start sprouting up all over.

i m so inspiring from you.want to plant more n more species of greens.love from nepal

I put my seeds 4 or 6 hrs in the water before planting! This week I planted. Corn,and spinach! Delicious salads, rice and "maminha"(Portuguese word for meat)

Great, as always Charles.

really enjoyed your video and all your crops are 1st class well done

Bit early for us in Minnesota! :) Nice to look forward to though.

Found this very usefull, i have small Spinach seedlings ready to plant out. Now i know how big they get i have a an idea on spacing. Looks like there is no need to net too. Awesome. Thanks

We are -13 c and 8 f today watching you make me so happy 😊can’t wait for better weather in 2 month so I can try planting lettuce and spinach 🥰

Very informative. Particularly interesting that they get away better in a no dig system. Take care. Nick

So far you have taught me so much, although I have done gardening since I was 12, starting with growing tomatoes. Now at 66, I am finally learning how to do a REAL garden. This year is the first year I have done raised beds to begin with and the first year I have had success with lettuce, thanks to you. I have very little compost, of which I am working on, but I have bought, so far, about 8 yards of very fine compost called Black gold at a very reasonable price. NO WEEDS--I love it. Your knowledge is absolutely fantastic, and I sincerely hope that you keep sharing it. As I have told you in the past, I keep sharing your site and videos on another site, which I belong to. I hope your subscriptions keep going up. Thank you so much, Charles.

The smaller spinach plants are the ones that were transplanted more deeply; I believe it's an exact correlation, but I'd have to rewind to be sure. Thanks again for another great video!

Great video, very informative and a clear presentation. Thank you for sharing the knowledge in this video, i am now subscribed and look forward to other videos!

Thank you for this! I'm actually struggling to grow spinach right now! This was quite helpful!! 💞

Thank you for posting this video specifically about spinach. I grow it every year, but feel the need to watch this to remind myself.

Well... This afternoon I was rewatching you How to grow series. I was going to ask whether you were planning an episode about spinach. And here you are.

I have said it before and I say it again I do like your videos that show the process from start to harvest Take care Mike B

Your methods are saving me lots of time and effort, love your books. Thanks

Thank you very much. I love salads so I want organic veggies for my salad without the high cost.

Fabulous talk in Hereford this week! Very inspired, roll on 14th Feb!

Hi Charles, Thank you for sharing your wisdom & gardening teachings. Last year was my first time growing vegetables & no dig gardening. Thanks to you, it has been a success & I am starting some more lettuce indoors & spinach tomorrow & it’s only the 2nd week of January here in Texas. Salute!

Can I Start Growing It Now? End June, I Live In Gwynedd I've Never Grown It Before.

Save yourself back bending pain and add wooden legs to your raised gardens making them higher off the ground waist height saves you all of that back bending as you mature.square boxes on legs. Works great.

my spinach became very leggy which I believe is due to overcrowding, do you ever experience this issue?

I wonder why some of those spinach plants weren't growing as full and large as the others. But I appreciate that you showed us, because as someone new to gardening, I always expect the plants to grow perfectly and get discouraged when they don't. But now I understand that we don't have much control over everything and it's expected that not everything will be perfect! Thank you for sharing. I also watched your video about growing salad greens in the winter, and that motivated me to get back into gardening. I just transplanted some spinach leaves, swiss chard (bright lights), kale, and buttercrunch lettuce the other day and I am so impatient! You're an inspiration! I can't wait for harvest :)

Its my first year of growing and no dig for everything ,just so glad you are here Charles guiding us through x

Another great vid charles.

Thank you for this amazing video. Best regards from germany :)

Well I stuffed that up very precisely - i now expect only a few leaves before they flower! I'll plant out another lot later on.. Should have checked first - mind you, the plants LOOK great!

Thank you sooo much very informative I have tied to plant main here in Florida am still struggling b but I will try in fall

Hi, Charles! At what distance the spinachs from each other? Thanks for everything!

This variety of spinach excites me 😂😂😂 people think I’m mad , the mad compost man they call me down the allotments , we will see who’s mad, when I’m sat in the sun drinking fresh camomile and mint tea , while they are digging and weeding , never getting anywhere , 😃😃😃 it’s defiantly a form of spiritual gardening Charles , great vid many thanks James ,

I have been gardening for over 30 years and before that at every chance as I moved around the globe. It is wonderful to have an experienced person explain things. Too many who are doing something for the first time or the second make videos but each of yours is backed by practice and yet, like all gardeners you are always trying new ideas and are not afraid to say so. Your manner is so very natural and relaxed. Now for a question, how to you keep Brussels sprouts from falling over?

Had spinach in the garden since late September last year and was delighted at how much I got over the winter I will do some more seedlings now as per your advice Charles :) I do love spinach

I like the idea of planting spinach seeds in clumps for more small leaves….I think I will do that this year

Mr. Dowding, can we use the prick out method on spinach seedlings?

This man is a pro. Thx for all theses videos

OK ! NOW FOR ME IN ZONE 8 40 TO 50 's day dips 25 To 30's

Could I plant spinach now, and later plant potatoes? 🤔 Yes I know this Video is 3 Years old :-) Greetings from Switzerland

Mr Charles Can you grow Spinach Medina in a mushroom tray or is it best outdoors. Thankyou.

Thank you very much for this spinach video and for all your other videos too. Having just taken on an allotment I’m really looking forward to applying lots of your ideas such as compost making, no-dig cultivation etc. I find your vids so informative and relaxing and inspiring. Thank you!

Thanks for your valuable tips ...your vids teach us alot...love from India

Can u show me how to grow kale??? Thanks

Great information as always and on a much under rated crop. Thanks as always.

You live in good grow zone Charles. I live in zone 6 in the U.S. I have to wait till end of March early April to sow spinach outside.

wow! try changes from white 0:40 to black 0:45 lol

So excited to have some seeds to plant early as I'm itching to get started on 2018 crops

Hi love your videos, they are helping me so much, but one question I have is, when you harvest your leaves including lettuce how do you keep them nice as mine alway go very limp and not nice to eat? Hope you can help

This man does wonders

They are so beautiful green .This will be my next project 🤩

Its Dec and already I'm desperate to get out there planting ! Thank you for such an informative video.

I wish I had your growing climate. I'm going to try your multisowing in compost for winter sowing.

Hi sir,i would love to know where u got your seedling tray? Thank you for always sharing your knowlege

Thanks so much! I don’t know how I missed this one. Hopefully I’m not too late.

Thanks for the lesson, it is, as always, helpful, to actually see you sowing and planting a particular plant. Last year was our first no dig garden year, and we had the best harvests ever! We only made the mistake to not cover our paths with cardboard, so we had a hard time fighting the weeds. Today we walked to a market in middle germany and saw endives, they were about 2,50 Euro (2,22 pounds)per endive, not organic grown!!. Thanks to your videos of the no dig method, we are lucky to have 12 endives , organic grown, in our polytunnel, ready to pick from! Your picking method is priceless, I had to become over 50 years old to learn this method! Thank you James!

Thank you for your brilliant videos Charles, my husband loves spinach and now I'll have no excuse for not bringing home loads of spinach leaves for him to eat.

Excellent Video. I wish I had watched it before I planted out my spinach seed last night! I will definitely try this next time! I have a huge slug problem in my garden but they generally leave the spinach alone oddly.

Do you think you would sell a box set of your advice and evidence by growth? this is incredible and has been a big help for many of us, the production and narration are things people have enjoyed from a PBS Thank you for helping people out with these videos, and happy gardening!

Hi Charles and thanks for sharing your experiences! Thanks for your tips on the larger spinach: Successfully grew this bigger kind of spinach this season. They were thriving in compost from horse manure combined with some coconut coir, maybe 1/6, and perlite; in partly shade. They got bigger leaves than usual, otherwise the same consistency and taste. Gonna try them in fall again. Spinacia oleracea 'Matador'. Large dark green leaves. With the bigger leaves it felt I got "two-for-one"! Thanks again for the tips!

Thank you...I'm learning so much from you!!! And the way you share your information is very understandable...

Very good

Charles I found your videos a little while ago and I can't stop watching them. You are right in line with what I'm trying to do....less work. Thank you for all you do to put these videos together for us. Question.. I have a small garden in the city and am expanding this year into some fabric grow pots. I was hoping to plant some spinach this way, although I may also see if I can tuck it into various places. I have upwards from 5gal to 30gal grow bags. Is there a particular size bag you would suggest? I was going to plant 1 spinach plant in it, but I would like to harvest leaves not the whole head so now I'm thinking I could use your clumping method. Would you plant more than one clump in a pot?

I’ve just started dabble with vegetable home gardening, and you are one of the experts I really watch for reference. Thanks 🙏🏼

Is it a good idea to germinates spinach seeds in wet kitchen towel inside a plastic pot first and then transfer them to small seeding pot?

Charles is crush as always. 3rd season gardener, and conceiving of getting some no dig beds working this time round ! thanks from WA, USA

I have a good number of spinach plants (multi-sown, of course 😃) happily overwintering at the allotment but would like to move some to the home garden. Will spinach tolerate transplanting at this time of the year (January) ?

One issue with spinach is that the seeds don't age well, and should be new every year.

Were you able to determine why the spinach was growing smaller?

Thank you for sharing this - really helpful 👍

raised beds full of home made compost, the best thing. lol

The Bob Ross of gardening.

Am soooo happy and comfortable... 🥰🥰🥰 Nice videos

Your videos are so much precise and full of information. Thank you so much. Pls may i know which variety of spinach is this? I am an absolute beginner. I eat regular spinach and baby spinach . I have first time heard of perpetaul spinach. Do you think this would be suitable for someone like me who has strong liking for regular spinach. Pls suggest so i can buy the seeds accordingly.

If you ever come to the US, please let me know. I would love to share my desert (AZ) garden experiences.

Love your videos, so helpful. I thought there were more videos but I only see a few. I was looking for one on growing radishes an leaving some for the seed pod. Thank you for your videos, the one on peas helped me last year and I am using the same method this year. :)

wow! those spinach are different with spinach in my country, indonesia. i think i can try planting it. hope that could grow in tropical climate.

What do I mulch on compost when I live in a predominantly Hot dry summer/ Wet mild Winter Mediterranean climate? The sun bakes down very hard here in Cape Town, South Africa and I was wondering if I need to add a layer of dried mulch on top of my compost mulch to keep moisture inside?

The enemy here is rabbits

Very poor sound recording. As if he’s telling us a secret

Very informative, as always. My parents attended your talk at the Bleddfa centre last week and will be practising no dig in their veg garden this year as a result.

You're doing great and you are very organized