How many times can you harvest spinach

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Spinach is one the earliest vegetables to produce in the spring garden.

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Its dark green tender leaves are a welcome sight after months of cold winter. It’s packed full of vitamins and nutrients (like lots of vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin K), and maybe the very best part of growing this green leafy vegetable is that you can cut all you need for salads, smoothies, and other recipes, and still keep the plant producing!

We’re going to teach you exactly how to harvest spinach leaves so the plant keeps growing to give you a second harvest (and more!), and we’re going to show you how to know when spinach is ready to harvest.

Let’s get growing!

When is spinach ready to harvest?

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a cool-weather vegetable related to beets and Swiss chard, and the magic of spinach is that you don’t have to wait to harvest it—as soon as the leaves are big enough to use, you can start harvesting!

In fact, you know the clamshell packs of baby spinach in the grocery store? Th

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