Growing spinach in Containers

Spinach is the easiest of all the leafy vegetables. It will be ready to harvest in a month. It recommended vegetable any first time gardener. Zero maintenance vegetable.

Picked up the seeds from Lalbagh Botanical Garden. Paid Rs. 30 for the below packet.

Google for the pic of seeds, plenty available. I had read of germinating seeds on tissue paper.

Thought of doing the same for spinach. Bad Idea. The seeds should be sown directly into the soil and not transplanted. 

I had put in five seeds, all of them germinated. Transplanted them into the bottle of coke. But only one survived :(. This seeds were placed in the tissue paper on 1st July. They took 5 days to germinate. This pic was taken on 8th July.

The plant in the middle, is the only one standing from the germinated seeds. I sowed couple of more seeds next to it. The below pic was taken on 12th July. 

 And this is the one taken today, 29th Jul.

 The spinach should be ready to harvest in a week.

Spinach in the bottle wasn't enough for one meal. But it made its way into the Salad :)
I picked a tub this time to grow my Spinach:

 Medium used is Coco Peat and compost. 70% of peat & 30 %.
Made 35 holes with a stick and sowed the seeds on 11/Aug.

The pic below was taken today morning (18/Aug)

26/08: