🥬 Spinach companion plants
Spinach is a cool-season green that bolts in heat. Tuck it into the shade of taller summer crops.
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Keep soil consistently moist
- Spacing
- 8–15 cm (3–6 in)
- Harvest
- 35–50 days from seed
Good companions for spinach
- 🍓 Strawberry
Both are low and enjoy similar conditions.
- 🫛 Pea
Peas add nitrogen and give light shade.
- 🫘 Bean
Nitrogen boost and summer shade from taller beans.
- 🥬 Cabbage
Grows quickly between young brassicas before they spread.
What not to plant with spinach
- 🥔 Potato
Potatoes compete for nutrients and disturb spinach roots at harvest.