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Rhubarb Chard Seeds
Info: Rhubarb Chard is a vegetable similar to Swiss Chard. It easy to grow, very decorative and tasty. It is a bright broad leaved chard with crimson coloured stems. Eat the young leaves in salads and save the larger leaves for steaming, stir-frying, or chopping and sautéing. Delicious in casseroles and quiches. Chard is a cool weather vegetable and will withstand a mild frost. It does well in containers and has a long harvest period.
Sowing & cultivation: Swiss chard is a prolific grower with a long cropping season, it tolerates partial shade, poor soil and inattention. Sow outdoors from March about 1 cm deep and about 5 cm apart. The harvest starts from May for baby leaf and after 60 days to maturity for bunching.
Botanical name | Beta vulgaris ssp. cicla |
Content | 50 seeds |
Sowing | from March outdoors |
Location | sunny, well-drained soil |
Germination temperature | 5 - 15°C |
Germination | 7 - 15 days |
Harvesting | May to September |
Lifespan | biennial |
Height | 40 - 50 cm |