Description
Organic Chard: Green. Perpetual Spinach. Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris Cicla Group.
This is a green variety. A member of the beetroot family it’s the leaves and stalks that we eat.
How to grow:
Easy to grow. Outdoors: Sow direct successionally into a well prepared seed bed from beginning of March to end of August. Growing time approx. 6 weeks. Will withstand light frosts at the start of the colder weather. Under protection: Sow Sept and Oct for harvest Dec, Jan, Feb.
Problem solving:
Keep slugs off when young. Disease free. Pigeons love it so protect from them.
Favourite ways to eat them:
Great raw in salads and also really good in stir frys. Eat the leaves and the stems. You can use the leaves to make stuffed “vine” leaves.
Cultural history:
Al beetroots are descended from Sea beet, which is in abundance around the coasts of northern Ireland.
Contents 2.5g – Approx. 150 seeds.
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