Thinning the Greens
Today we thinned the greens (leaf lettuce and spinach) that were planted on March 8. Not only do we have a nice little salad of fresh baby greens to look forward to but this will give the remaining plants the room that they need to grow.
The seedlings should be about 4 inches apart after thinning. We placed the seeds very close together (half an inch) so that leaves us with lots of extra.It is very easy, just gently pull the greens out, being careful to leave one in the ground every four inches.
You could also transplant the ones you are thinning. We haven’t established a bed for this so, this year, we are just going to eat the baby greens. Hopefully next year we will have more garden space prepped before the season begins so that we can grow even more food. I’d like to be eating as much from my own backyard as possible.
Net Yet Thinned
After Thinning
Thank you so much for posting this. I am growing winter variety spinach (says it on the packet
) and have been reading online that I should ‘thin’ the spinach. Great pics, now I know what I have to do and will transplant for greater yield. Happy organics. E
Winter variety spinach sounds like a good choice
the hardier the better!
Cool.. I’ve been away. In Guyana for three weeks – a wonderful adventure. On one trip, on route along the Demerara River to an Amerinidian village, we stopped to visit a family and picked huge avocados from this sprawling tree. Anyways, when I got back home the spinach was doing well, loads of it.. good thing I like my greens. Yesterday, I bought a pint of mussels. I fried finely chopped onion, a thinly sliced clove of garlic, threw in the cleaned mussels and a big bunch of my very own garden spinach! Squeeze of lime and butter.. absolutely lovely with some granary bread.
This is my first vegetable garden, not very big, but surprising what you can do even with a small space. E