This Day in the Garden
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Swiss Chard
Swiss Chard harvest!
Submitted by Elisabeth on
This is our second week of leaf harvest (day 57) on the swiss chard. Compared to the mammoth leaves in the supermarket, ours are younger, sweeter and more tender (basically, better in every way). They require very little cooking and the brightly-colored stems are particularly lovely in a stir fry.
A few of the transplanted and otherwise smaller plants are not quite ready for a leaf harvest. However, the discrepancies in size are lessening as the season progresses.
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Thinning, transplanting & leaf miner - this week in Swiss Chard
Submitted by Elisabeth on
The swiss chard seedlings are up and growing, but in need of a bit of thinning and transplanting. The rows are just under a foot apart and we're progressively thinning the plants so that they will be 4 to 6 inches apart. The promise is that these plants, once mature, will continue to produce for us throughout the gardening season.
We've had some leaf miner damage on the early leaves. The worst of the infestation appears to be over, although some of the plants continue to bear scars.
This Day in the Garden
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Planting Swiss Chard is easy!
Submitted by Elisabeth on
Swiss chard seeds were planted in the garden today. Like the other cold-tolerant crops (peas, kale, lettuce and the cabbage family) they could have gone in a few weeks sooner. The wonderful thing about planting swiss chard is the big seeds (almost the size of peas and far less smooth, they're among the few seeds you can plant in a stiff breeze).
We've planted Bright Lights, a variety with a colorful mix of red, white, pink and yellow plants. There's only room for 3 rows in the 6-foot wide bed, which the swiss chard shares with the other leafy biennials (collards and kale).
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