Whays wrong with my spinach

Hi

Sowed my spinach 6 weeks ago and i have just taken the second lot of leaves to use at home and i niticed that nearly all the plants are going to seed,what have i done wrong or is spinach just a hard veg to grow,last year my everlasting spinach seemed to be ok thanks for any surggestions

regards Holttum

 

Spinachneeds a rich soil, dappled shade, and plenty of water. Prolonged dry spell and it will run to seed. You need to sow successionally to have continuous cropping.

For those reasons I gave up trying to grow it some time ago, and now grow Perpetual Spinach / Leaf beat instead, together with Swiss Chard [various names for much-the-same family of plants] - and we also cook the tops of beetroot in the same way.

Bog-standard Ruby Chard is more prone to bolting, but Swiss Chard less so.