38 days. Here's the spinach you want for any climate, any season, and just about any use! Adaptable, quick, and very disease-resistant, Palco Hybrid is out to become your spinach of choice, season after season!
Ready in a flash, it can be picked early for baby greens or allowed to grow out. If you go out of town or become overwhelmed with fresh veggies, leave it be -- it's quite bolt-resistant. And if you live in a warm climate, it's a great choice to overwinter!
Palco sets smooth mid-green leaves with the traditional rounded, spoon-like shape. The yields are good, probably because this spinach demonstrates excellent resistance to 8 races of downy mildew: 1-5, 8, 9, and 11. No need to worry about rain, humidity, or crowding with Palco!
We highly recommend this spinach for spring or fall crops. It's a good container choice, and fares especially well in the crowded vegetable garden. You're going to love the fresh flavor! Pkt is 200 seeds.
From farmers' markets and supermarkets to gourmet restaurants and backyard gardens, Leafy Greens (Lettuce, Mustard, Spinach, and Collards) are popular for their various textures, sweet or pungent flavors, beautiful colors, and nutritional value. They're versatile and fast growing, can be harvested at most any stage, are delicious raw or cooked, and in warmer climates can be grown year-round. For flavor, beauty, nutrition, and ease of cultivation, you can't beat the numerous, wonderful varieties of Lettuce and Greens!
Choosing a Lettuce Variety
There's a world of terrific options when it comes to choosing which types of Lettuce and Greens to grow. These versatile veggies come in all shades of green and red, offer flavors from sweet to pungent, and provide a delightful range of textures, from crunchy to tender and smooth to frilly. And best of all, each one is easy to grow, great for beginning gardeners, and completely scrumptious!
When to Start Lettuce Seeds
Lettuce and Greens are best started outdoors as soon as the soil can be worked in early spring or late summer (for a fall crop). For those living in zones 8 and warmer, sow your seeds in early fall for a winter harvest.
As long as the temperature stays below 80 degrees F, you can keep making successive sowings -- every two weeks is typical -- to extend your harvest. As summer approaches, however, you will want to plant varieties that tolerate heat and resist bolting (producing flowers and seeds too soon).
If you choose to sow your seeds indoors, do so 4 weeks before planting out, at a temperature of 65 to 68 degrees F. Expect germination in 7 to 10 days.
How to Start Lettuce Seeds
Leafy Greens prefer fertile, well-drained soil, so before planting add compost or manure. This will provide important nutrients and improve drainage.
They will produce in light shade but grow the best in areas with full sun exposure.
Seeds should be scattered in a row and covered lightly with soil. Keep the soil moist until they germinate.
Special Considerations
Growing Tips for Lettuce and Leafy Greens
Pests and Problems to Watch For
Grown as an edible leafy green for eating raw or cooked. It is an annual that grows to 1 foot tall and 8-10 inches wide. The plants form basal rosettes of the dark green, smooth (or crinkled in the savoy type) foliage. To harvest, cut off the entire plant at the soil line. Do so when the leaves are 6-8 inches long and before the flower stalks form. Spinach is eaten fresh and it can be preserved by canning or freezing
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
38 days. Here's the spinach you want for any climate, any season, and just about any use! Adaptable, quick, and very disease-resistant, Palco Hybrid is out to become your spinach of choice, season after season!
Ready in a flash, it can be picked early for baby greens or allowed to grow out. If you go out of town or become overwhelmed with fresh veggies, leave it be -- it's quite bolt-resistant. And if you live in a warm climate, it's a great choice to overwinter!
Palco sets smooth mid-green leaves with the traditional rounded, spoon-like shape. The yields are good, probably because this spinach demonstrates excellent resistance to 8 races of downy mildew: 1-5, 8, 9, and 11. No need to worry about rain, humidity, or crowding with Palco!
We highly recommend this spinach for spring or fall crops. It's a good container choice, and fares especially well in the crowded vegetable garden. You're going to love the fresh flavor! Pkt is 200 seeds.
From farmers' markets and supermarkets to gourmet restaurants and backyard gardens, Leafy Greens (Lettuce, Mustard, Spinach, and Collards) are popular for their various textures, sweet or pungent flavors, beautiful colors, and nutritional value. They're versatile and fast growing, can be harvested at most any stage, are delicious raw or cooked, and in warmer climates can be grown year-round. For flavor, beauty, nutrition, and ease of cultivation, you can't beat the numerous, wonderful varieties of Lettuce and Greens!
Choosing a Lettuce Variety
There's a world of terrific options when it comes to choosing which types of Lettuce and Greens to grow. These versatile veggies come in all shades of green and red, offer flavors from sweet to pungent, and provide a delightful range of textures, from crunchy to tender and smooth to frilly. And best of all, each one is easy to grow, great for beginning gardeners, and completely scrumptious!
When to Start Lettuce Seeds
Lettuce and Greens are best started outdoors as soon as the soil can be worked in early spring or late summer (for a fall crop). For those living in zones 8 and warmer, sow your seeds in early fall for a winter harvest.
As long as the temperature stays below 80 degrees F, you can keep making successive sowings -- every two weeks is typical -- to extend your harvest. As summer approaches, however, you will want to plant varieties that tolerate heat and resist bolting (producing flowers and seeds too soon).
If you choose to sow your seeds indoors, do so 4 weeks before planting out, at a temperature of 65 to 68 degrees F. Expect germination in 7 to 10 days.
How to Start Lettuce Seeds
Leafy Greens prefer fertile, well-drained soil, so before planting add compost or manure. This will provide important nutrients and improve drainage.
They will produce in light shade but grow the best in areas with full sun exposure.
Seeds should be scattered in a row and covered lightly with soil. Keep the soil moist until they germinate.
Special Considerations
Growing Tips for Lettuce and Leafy Greens
Pests and Problems to Watch For
Grown as an edible leafy green for eating raw or cooked. It is an annual that grows to 1 foot tall and 8-10 inches wide. The plants form basal rosettes of the dark green, smooth (or crinkled in the savoy type) foliage. To harvest, cut off the entire plant at the soil line. Do so when the leaves are 6-8 inches long and before the flower stalks form. Spinach is eaten fresh and it can be preserved by canning or freezing
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.