The spinach has fallen disease. (How to make a vegetable patch) – Setting up a vegetable garden
Starting a vegetable garden from scratch. (How to create a vegetable garden？) After plowing the field and sowing the seeds, about a month and a half has passed. Vegetables like spinach and snap peas, grown from seeds, have also matured, giving the field a more garden-like appearance.
The linked article explains soil preparation, sowing seeds, and fertilizing for winter and spring vegetables such as leaf lettuce, spinach, and etc.
https://www.vege-try.net/en/plow-a-field-winter-spring-20-en
This time, there is an issue in the spinach bed.
At first glance, it seems to be growing well, but..
Upon closer inspection, there are some spinach plants with yellowed leaves at the base.
According to the farm staff, when spinach gets disease, it seems to look like this.
Unfortunately, it seems that we cannot cure the spinach disease, but by spraying this, it has the effect of suppressing the disease.
The liquid inside the spray is a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and Japanese shochu (distilled liquor). Not being a pesticide, it’s a harmless liquid for both the human body and vegetables. It seems to be a standard liquid in pesticide-free vegetable cultivation and is commonly used for disease prevention and pest repellent in vegetables.
It’s recommended to spray about twice for each hole in the mulch.
Next month, from April, preparations for growing spring and summer vegetables will begin. Therefore, I will harvest all of this spinach over the course of about a week to ten days.
I harvest spinach by cutting the base with scissors.
This time, I harvested spinach from six holes in the mulch.
The plot after harvesting looks like this. The remaining spinach will be harvested at a later date.
Following is the video for how-to. English subtitles are available.