Spinach
Espinaca · Épinard
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Height
- low (< 40 cm)
- Shape
- compact
- Roots
- shallow
- Sun
- tolerates some shade
- Season
- cool season
- Grows in
- ❄ winter beds (cool season)
- Feeds
- medium feeder
Jobs in the bed
- Fast fillerHarvested within weeks, so it fits between slow crops before they fill the space.
Rotation
Do not return Amaranthaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✓ Good neighbours
- ✓ Bean (bush/pole)
- ✓ Pea
- ✓ Cabbage
- ✓ Corn
- ✓ Pepper
- ✓ Radish
- ✓ Leek
- ✓ Celery
- ✓ Eggplant / aubergine
- ✓ Broad bean / fava
- ✓ Strawberry
- ✓ Broccoli
- ✓ Cauliflower
☀❄ Grows in a different season: not at the same time in the same bed.
✗ Keep apart
None listed.
⚠ Use caution
- ⚠ Swiss chardkeep from beet & spinach (same family — shared leaf-miner/disease)
✿ Helpful flowers & herbs
- ✿ Coriander / cilantroUmbel flowers attract ladybugs, hoverflies, lacewings & wasps that prey on aphids & potato beetle Bolts in heat (fine — the flowers help)