Organic Chard – Green. Perpetual Spinach.

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.