Chard (Beta Vulgaris Subsp. Vulgaris) is a popular vegetable widely used in the Mediterranean kitchen. Not unlike spinach, mainly its leaves are used for cooking but steamed up, the chard stalks also taste delicious as a side dish and the first small chard leaves are a wonderfully flavoursome and colourful addition to any salad.
Chard is very easy to grow and particularly its beautiful colour variations can sometimes even be found in flowerbeds to add decorum to the garden.
This seed kit consists of three colourful chard varieties to make your garden, balcony or kitchen much more colourful:
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Rhubarb Chard 'Vulkan'
Rhubarb chard is a beautiful old cultivar with glowing red stalks and green leaves. It tastes delicious and is a real ornament for the shrub bed.
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Yellow Swiss Chard 'Bright Yellow'
'Bright Yellow' is a colourful and delicious tasting Swiss chard variety. Its young leafs can be enjoyed as baby-leaf salad or prepared as greens on the side, when fully grown.
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White Swiss Chard 'Fordhook Giant'
Traditional English chard with thick, white leaf veins.
One seed sachet per chard variety.
The seed sachets and detailed growing instructions in German and English are packed in a beautiful gift box - a great, sustainable gift for the garden. Any plant lover will be pleased.
Seeding advice: Biennial uncomplicated vegetable. Sowing 2-3 cm deep outdoors from mid-
April-
July. Distance approx. 30 cm. Loves loose, humus soil and needs lots of moisture. We, therefore, recommend mulching.
