This is your spinach ~ Or Dis Da Wi Fi Spinach ~ (our spinach)
Your spinach has germinated. It will be ready for the farmer's market in about 45 days. I planted it for you about a week and a half ago. Along with some other things; tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, basil, fennel, oregano, broccoli and celery. This weekend I will be planting your flowers for you. And in about three weeks I will plant some squash so that is can be ready by mid to late June.
Your spinach seeds were flown in from Maine. Certified organic seeds, very nice. They're growing in some very fancy certified organic germination mix, also flown in from Maine. No lobsters though, we didn't have any of those flown in. The soil is a luxury item. We've mixed our own in the past with mixed, mostly poor results. So this year we sprung for the good stuff so we can supply you with even more spinach.
Your spinach will be watched closely for the next week or so. We have to make sure it doesn't grow too leggy or dampen off. It will be moved to the hoop house in about two weeks. Then very shortly after that it will be in the ground and a couple of weeks later we'll start cutting the leaves and bringing them to market.
It is pretty close to organic. The seed and soil organic. The ground it will be grown in is eligible for organic certification. The only thing prohibitting your spinach from being certified is the hay that we use for mulch. It comes from a field we own, which we rent out to another farmer. He's growing his hay organically, but it isn't certified and that problem trickles all the way down to your spinach.
I make no guarantees, but we'll try to follow your spinach from seed to table.
