Tatsoi

Tatsoi is the tried and true swap for spinach here as it is much more tolerant of warm or variable temperatures. Many organic boxed lettuce blends actually use tatsoi in place of spinach so you have probably already eaten it and just not realized you had. It will form a rosette of small bright green spoon shaped leaves. Harvest from the bottom up for extended harvests. Eat raw or cooked and substitute in any recipe that calls for spinach. Quick to produce and reasonable harvest length but I usually succession plant 2 or 3 times over the growing season for continual harvests.

Packet: ~1,000 seeds

Good to start from seed in these months:

North Florida: March-May, September-November

Central Florida: March-May, September-November

South Florida: February-March, October-December