Leaf Beet Chard

Chard seeds comes under many names including Leaf beet, beta vulgaris, swiss chard and sea kale beet. It's an ornamental leafy vegetable from the beet family. Chard plants produce colourful stems with spinach like leaves, usually with coloured veins. Many of the listed varieties are not true beets but are grown on a similar regime for the use of the leaves as an alternative to spinach. The flavours are somewhat milder than spinach but also give a crop in late summer and into winter when spinach would not thrive. Sow the seeds 2cm deep, where they are to remain, in rows about 35-40cm apart from March to July for harvest from May onwards. Thin to 20cm between plants.
We also have a range of beetroot seeds available to buy online!