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Imagine stepping into your garden and picking your own fresh, vibrant spinach leaves. With Spinach ‘Santa Cruz’, you can enjoy the ultimate homegrown vegetable experience - packed with nutrients and bursting with flavour.
As a seasoned horticulturist, I can confidently say this variety is a gardener’s dream. Its robust growth, disease resistance, and cold-hardiness make it a reliable choice for beginners and green-thumbed pros alike.
Spinach ‘Santa Cruz’ isn’t just easy to grow, it’s incredibly versatile in the kitchen too. Whether whipping up a nutritious salad, sautéing greens for dinner, or blending a healthy smoothie, this spinach has you covered. It thrives in pots or directly in the soil, making it perfect for small patios or sprawling gardens.
Reaching a mature height of 25cm, it’s compact yet prolific, yielding generous harvests throughout the growing season. Plant in a sunny or partially shaded spot, and it will reward with lush, tender leaves. Spinach ‘Santa Cruz’ is also a pollinator-friendly delight, supporting beneficial insects and enhancing biodiversity in your garden.
Supplied as a set of 12 plug plants, ready to grow on and plant out, once all risk of frost has passed.
Spinach may bolt (go to seed) in hot weather or when stressed. To reduce bolting provide shade during heatwaves and water consistently to avoid drought stress.
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Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.
Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.
We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.
Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.
Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.
Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.