Spinach Harvest: read everything you need to know now

Spinach is a very easy crop to grow. For the harvest, however, some precautions are necessary: understand the best time, evaluate the size of the leaves, cut the seedlings correctly to ensure other crops … and of course choose the right equipment!

For more structured farms, the spinach harvest requires the use of precise and fast machinery, which ensures maximum yield with minimum effort, especially in terms of manpower. For this reason, Ortomec offers you numerous models of harvesters that optimize this delicate operation, guaranteeing you the same care and the same concerns as manual harvesting.

In this article we reveal everything you need to know about spinach harvesting and we recommend the best machinery to do it at best: you just have to continue reading!

What to know about when and how to harvest spinach

Spinach can be grown practically all year round. They have excellent resistance to cold while they fear the heat, which makes them annoyingly bitter. The most suitable conditions for their outdoor development are therefore in spring and autumn.

The sowing period, and consequently the harvesting period, changes according to the variety: those that are sown in late summer or early autumn allow a harvest in autumn or early winter, those that are sown in early spring are harvested before it begins. the summer.

From each crop it is possible to obtain different harvests since spinach has a short crop cycle (45-70 days) which facilitates the rotation. Most varieties can be harvested when a rosette of five or six leaves forms, but the right timing varies with leaf size and plant growth.

To maintain a good continuous production, the peeling can be carried out: from time to time only the largest leaves that grow externally on the sides must be collected, leaving intact the central head that continues to ripen. To get more than one crop it is instead necessary to cut the entire head, not really at the base, so the plant will have the possibility of re-growing.

Managing such a production – spinach harvesting is frequent and must be done quickly – can become a heavy and very demanding job if you don’t have the right machines. Thanks to a correct collection of spinach, it is possible to obtain the best leaves by discarding as few as possible.

The best solutions for spinach harvesting by Ortomec

Collecting spinach without being able to rely on technologically advanced machinery could prove to be an impossible task, due to the amount of work and the need to make a precise cut that does not damage the leaves and allows the plant to produce other crops.

If you are looking for a spinach harvester designed to operate in a delicate and precise way, obtaining the desired cut quickly, Ortomec has the right solution for your company.

Available in various models, towed, tracked, self-propelled on wheels and self-propelled on tracks, the Ortomec harvesters for the collection of spinach are equipped with the latest generation of proportional sensors and a historical cutting system to guarantee you a precise but at the same time delicate and safe harvest.

Prefer a suction and trimming machine? Try Cleaner, the latest generation trimming machine designed to cut spinach at an optimal height so that the plant can grow back quickly for subsequent harvests. It is equipped with a filterless suction system, which avoids possible clogging and increases the load capacity and working autonomy of the machine.

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If you grow spinach on containers, such as polystyrene or plastic trays, Ortomec offers you the innovative 1500 Float-system harvester that manages the harvest in a completely automatic way thanks to various conveyor belts that lead the containers towards the cutting blade, the leaves cut and unload them in the collection boxes.

Since 1998 Ortomec has been designing and manufacturing machines for the harvesting of head and leaf salads and seeders. Today it is a company appreciated all over the world for innovative and technologically advanced machinery able to adapt to the needs of each reality, as well as for the efficient assistance service in case the customer needs returns and / or spare parts.

Contact us for more information: our staff is ready to assist you in choosing the most suitable spinach harvesting machine for your business.