Variety profile
Spinach ‚Winterriesen’
Spinacia oleracea · Amaranthaceae
- Ripening
- spät
- Harvest
- Week 10 to 16, Week 43 to 45
- Vigour
- stark
- Origin
- Deutschland
- Open-pollinated
- Yes
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Frisch, Kochen, Salat
- Disease resistance
- Winterhaerte: hoch
About this variety
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A robust, hardy variety that you sow in late summer to carry it through the winter and harvest early in spring. The large, dark green and fleshy leaves shrug off frost well and grow on strongly after mild spells. That way you have fresh greens in the bed exactly in the lean season, when little else is growing. Winterriesen is open pollinated and easy to save seed from.
Mild and full bodied, pleasantly tender thanks to the cool growing period. Leaves harvested through the winter often taste a little sweeter.
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.
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