Topic: Perpetual Spinach bolting

[MetMan]

We are having real problems this year with perpetual Spinach bolting, and to a lesser extent rainbow Chard. We are removing flower heads but more keep coming !

Normally this has grown OK and stood right through the winter.

Do you think this is down to the generally drier weather ?

[saddad]

Probably... you do mean sown this year...  :-\

[MetMan]

yes - planted this year.

It is the only crop that we are having major bolting problems with at the moment.

I was wondering if there might be another reason, rather than just drier weather ?

[saddad]

Not a problem I've had....  :-\

[tim]

Don't understand that, MetMan.

Last year's lifted a couple of weeks ago - this lot following on - sown 10 May.

[Fork]

I visited another site yesterday and saw some spinach that had bolted.There was also some beetroot too and the variety was Boltardy!!

[skyblu]

mine is bolting too no matter how often I water it. 

[hopalong]

My perpetual spinach has been bolting too, but not any beetroot. Also, the rhubarb keeps flowering.

Swiss chard and spinach beet (perpetual spinach) tend not to bolt so much as annual spinach in hot weather, but all like relatively cool, damp conditions and it may just be that it has been far too hot for them (well over 30C in London for the past couple of days).  Also they don't like overcrowding.

[PurpleHeather]

It is the weather I am afraid that the seeds we generally use are intended for our normal dull climate. We are having tropical conditions (in some areas it is too much for them.

MY vegetable plot gets in the shade in early evening  from trees on one side yet the plot opposite has full sun all the time. Mine is usually a week or two behind theirs with development, but we share so they get some of mine when theirs have finished but this year a lot of their things have bolted, mine have been fine.

[Borlotti]

My everlasting spinach is no longer everlasting and my new baby spinach is also flowering.  Shame as we like spinach.  Have chopped the flowers off but they still keep coming.  Also all my mint has bolted, but it has just gone under the fence and is growing next door, probably fed up with the cat peeing on it.

[Barnowl]

Ours is bolting - it's either Matador or Palco. Full sun but under enviromesh. Doesn't get a lot of watering.

[Jokerman]

mine has bolted as well... just got pissed off so dug them out and threw for the lotty neighbours chickens to peck at. First year I've grown spinach... and the last. I grew tetona.