Best time to plant spinach in Charters Towers
Spinacia oleracea
Sow spinach in Charters Towers in Apr to Jun.
Spinach is a leafy annual, occasionally biennial, that stays fairly small at up to 30 cm. Its leaves are eaten fresh or cooked or kept by canning, freezing or drying, and the taste changes noticeably with cooking. Big leaves sit low on the plant, with smaller ones up the flowering stem.
When to sow in Charters Towers
Charters Towers, QLD is in the tropical zone. Its months for spinach apply here without a frost adjustment.
Matches local guides.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Charters Towers
Frost usually arrives in Charters Towers around early July and finishes by late July. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as mid June or as late as late August, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Finishes in a season and stays within its space, so it suits most plots.
Growing details
- How to start
- Sow directly in the bed
- Sowing depth
- 12mm
- Plant spacing
- 20cm
- Row spacing
- 30cm
- Height
- 15cm
- Germination
- About 14 days
- Time to harvest
- 50 days from sowing
- Frost
- Hardy, takes a light frost
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.