Spinach Seeds

Spinach Seeds

Class	Gardening
Weight	0.02
Crafting Skill	None
Crafting	See How to Craft
Location	Crafted
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.SpinachSeed`

Spinach Seeds are the seeds that grow a Spinach crop. They are a gardening item for any survivor who wants fresh greens from a farm plot. Each seed is planted in tilled soil and grows into one Spinach plant.

Spinach suits a cool spring garden. It is sown from late winter into midsummer and turns around fairly quickly. Its main strength is a steady leafy harvest early in the year. Its main cost is that it does poorly through autumn and winter.

The seeds come from opening a Seed Packet - Spinach, which gives five seeds. They can also be saved back into an empty packet. The Farmer is the best occupation for gardening. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Using

Spinach Seeds are planted one per tile of tilled soil. The plant needs about 292 hours to grow, a little over twelve days. Each grown plant gives two to four Spinach at harvest.

Sowing works from February through July. March and June are the best months to plant. September through January are bad months, when the crop struggles. A spring sowing in March gives a harvest well before the hot summer.

Loose seeds are easy to lose track of in a bag. The Put 5 Seeds in Packet recipe gathers five Spinach Seeds into an Empty Seed Packet - Spinach. That turns them back into a Seed Packet - Spinach for tidy storage. Open Seed Packet does the reverse and hands back five seeds and the empty packet.