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Growing Swiss Chard

Botanical name:  Beta vulgaris var. cicla

Growing Swiss Chard Organic Gardening Fact Sheet

Seed

 

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Planting time: SP,su,FA
Seeds per ounce: 1500
Ounces per square foot: .004
Minimum legal germination rate: 65%
Germination type:

Short Germinating seeds

 

Notes
Swiss Chard is very easy to grow. Swiss Chard tolerates poor soil and does well with benign neglect, and withstands frost and mild freezes. Both the stalk and the leaves and be eaten. The leaves can be used in salads or cooked like spinach.

Swiss Chard is a member of the beet family, without a bulb.

 

 

Planting

     
In garden spacing (inches): 8  
In flat spacing (inches): 1  
Planting depth (inches): cover seed with soil
Maxiumum number of plants per square foot: 3
Nutrient relationship: Heavy Feeder
   

Harvest

 

Days to maturity: 49-56
Harvesting period (days): 308
Minimum yields in pounds /square foot: 2
   
     

Cultural

Diseases:

Not susceptible to disease problems.

Insect pests:(Insect Pest Finder) Army Cutworm, Bean Aphid, Beet Leafhopper, Cabbage Looper, Cutworm, Flea Beetle, Green Peach Aphid, Leafminer, Pea Aphid, Slugs and Snails, Slugs and Snails, Tarnished Plant Bug
   

Varieties for Swiss Chard

'Fordhook Giant' - Compact plants with thick, dark-green, savoyed leaves with white veins and broad, white stems.

'Rhubarb Chard' - Red-veined, heavily savoyed, green leaves with deep purple-crimson stalks.

'Verte a Carde Blanche' - Large, green, slightly blistered and savoyed leaves with wide, white ribs.

'Verde da Taglio' - Italian chard. Plants produce thin stems and smooth leaves with mild spinach flavor.

'Bright Lights' - 20-inch plants with dark-green, bronzed, moderately savoyed leaves with stems, midribs and secondary veins showing gold, yellow, orange, and pink intermediate pastels and stripes.

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