Spinach ‚Matador’

Ripening

mittel

Harvest

Week 16 to 21, Week 38 to 42

Vigour

stark

Origin

Schweden

Open-pollinated

Yes

Heritage variety

Yes

Use

Frisch, Kochen, Salat

Disease resistance

Schossneigung: hoch

About this variety

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A proven classic for spring and autumn sowing that supplies you with thick, dark green, slightly savoyed leaves. Matador grows vigorously and bolts far more slowly than many older varieties, so you can take a little more time over the harvest. The young leaves go raw into the salad bowl, the larger ones you steam as usual. Because the variety is open-pollinated, you can save your own seed from the finest plants.

Robust and savoury in flavour, with the typically full spinach aroma. The fleshy leaves collapse far less on cooking than those of thin-leaved varieties.

Care and diseases

Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.