Chard / Swiss Chard

Swiss chard came onto my horizon when I started looking around at the spring greens served up in Maritime kitchens.  Folks out here love it as a cooked green, similar to beet greens or spinach - no surprise as they're all related!  Chard is the one to choose for a summer green as it doesn't bolt like spinach once the warm weather and long daylength hits.  Direct seed chard as soon as your soil can be worked.  We've started adding it as a baby green to salad mixes, but many folks let the leaves grow larger and harvest whole plants for market.  Quite versatile, and low maintenance.

Approx. 70 seeds/gram

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NEW!  FIVE COLOUR SILVERBEET                                 Certified Organic 45 days. A rainbow right in the garden!  This chard was commercially introduced by British seed company Thompson & Morgan back in the 18th cantury as "Rainbow Chard".  This strain was picked up and revitalized by Diggers in Australia once T&M dropped it in 1970, bringing the washed out colours back to life.  Stems of bright red, pink, orange, yellow and white with leaves of dark green. Add them as baby leaves to salad mixes, or harvest them larger for braising, steaming or stir-fries. Product code: 1171-CO                               Price:   A=$2.75 (2g)