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Q: Is there any way to keep spinach making leaves? Mine was just getting well started when it stopped growing and made flowers instead. A: You can influence the growth of spinach, but you cannot ...
Although many believe heat is what causes spinach to bolt, day length actually initiates this flowering response in spinach. Flowering in most varieties is "switched on" by days about 14 hours ...
Bolting is when a plant produces hormones for flowering, but doesn't produce harvestable fruit. Bolting makes herbs and vegetables without harvestable fruits to embitter, spoiling their taste as ...
With April starting, here are some gardening tips for vegetable gardening, outdoor flowering plants and ornamentals. Cool, wet soils can extend germination time or cause seed rot. If you find no ...
His interpretation has been questioned by Leopold, Kamien and Janick2, for staminate as well as unpollinated pistillate plants of spinach show senescence after flowering.
Depending on the direction and force of prevailing winds and the relative humidity, spinach pollen can pollinate other flowering spinach crops within 2 mi (3.2 km) if grown in open terrain.