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There are many benefits to growing spinach in your garden. It’s an easy and fast crop to grow, it is readily available year-round, and you can use the leaves for salads and VegetableIn addition to being low carb and high fiber, spinach is packed with iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, and moreIt is a nutritional powerhouse that should be part of a healthy diet.Spinach also contains compounds that may reduce inflammation, help strengthen eyesight, and other benefitsSpinach doesn’t like to be transplanted, and doing so can trigger it to bolt prematurely. So, it’s best to direct sow the seeds, rather than starting them indoors or winter sowing them.Loosen up the soil, and remove any weeds, or large rocks. Amend poor soil with compost or worm castings into it before sowing the seeds.You can either space the seeds 2? apart, and then thin them later. Or space them 4-6? apart if you don’t want to thin the seedlings.Spinach seeds should be planted 1/2? deep. If you’re using fresh seeds, then you only need to plant one per hole. Otherwise, if they are old, then plant 2-3 per hole.Use a low setting on your garden hose so you don’t displace the seeds, then water the bed until the soil is evenly moist.When planted in the right soil, spinach seeds germinate very quickly. It only takes about 5-10 days for the seedlings to start emerging.