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Red Kitten Spinach
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Red Kitten is a smooth flat spinach, ready in about 34 days. Sweet, tender leaves for salads raw or wilted in a pan. Spinach is fast and cool-season — it bolts in heat and long days, so grow it in early spring and fall.
“A tender, fast cool-season green for salads and cooking.”
Growing basics — shared by every spinach
Red Kitten grows like any other spinach. The full picture — how deep to plant, spacing, feeding, pests, harvest — lives on the Spinach page so it's maintained in one place.
- Sun
- Full Sun
- Spacing (in row)
- 2–4 in
- Row spacing
- 12–18 in
- Planting depth
- 0.25–0.5 in
- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Water
- Moderate
What is Red Kitten good for?
- Fresh saladsSweet raw. Great
- Sautéed & cookedWilts in seconds. Great
- FreezingBlanch the glut. Great
From how it grows — kitchens vary.
What Red Kitten is known for
William Dam Seeds describes this as:
- slow to run to seed in heat
That is the company selling the seed, describing its own product. True, and worth weighing as such.
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Want the full 10/50/90% odds + nearest stations? Open the frost tool →When to plant Red Kitten in your zone
Zone 6bGreenhouse or cover on: your start slides ~4 weeks earlier and your harvest stretches ~3 weeks later (shown striped).
Planting seeds straight in the ground only works where the season's long and warm — most gardeners start seeds indoors or buy young plants, or you'd pick your first tomato right as frost hits.
Comfortable — first ripe fruit lands around late Apr, well before your typical frost (~late Oct).
- Plant seeds outside
- late Mar – early Apr
- Growing
- early Apr – late Apr
- Picking
- late Apr – mid May
Typical dates for zone 6b — set your zone or ZIP above for yours.
Growing Red Kitten — the things that trip people up
- Spinach bolts (shoots to seed) fast in heat and long summer days. Grow it in the cool and short days of early spring and fall, and sow a little every couple of weeks for a steady supply.
- Pick the outer leaves young, or cut the whole plant. Give it rich soil and steady water — stressed spinach bolts even sooner.
Red Kitten spinach at a glance
| Type | Smooth Flat |
|---|---|
| Days to ripe | 34 days after you plant it outside |
| Color | Bicolor |
Extra fields from seed-catalog listings and university growing guides. Days to ripe and disease resistance shift with your climate and seed source — double-check with your local extension office before you buy.
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Common questions about Red Kitten
How long does Red Kitten take to grow?
About 34 days, and you can pick baby leaves even sooner.
Why does Red Kitten bolt?
Spinach shoots to seed in heat and long days. Grow it in cool spring and fall weather, and it stays leafy and sweet much longer.
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