Vegetables S Page 4 - Swede & Swiss Chard
Swede
(Brassica
napus)
Sow in
spring to early summer in drills 1cm deep and Thin to 20 cm apart leave 45cm
between rows. Harvest autumn onwards
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Swede Gowrie 2g pkt A purple skinned variety that offers excellent disease resistance. Good colour and flesh texture make this the ideal swede. Powdery Mildew and Club Root resistant. Ideal for October to January cropping. £1.10 Add to basket
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Swede Marian Av 1,000 Seeds Purple topped globe shaped variety with yellow flesh, hardy and reliable cropper. Very high yielding, uniform roots. £1.10 Add to basket
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Swede Best of All Av 1,500 Seeds Purple top variety, medium sized roots with a mild flavour. Very hardy and holds well. £1.10 Add to basket
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Swede Melfort Av 500 Seeds Green top with good leaf cover for weed suppression. Scores very high in taste tests, very sweet. An excellent culinary variety very good resistance to cabbage root fly. £1.10 Add to basket
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Swiss Chard
Beta
vulgaris
Comment: Dual
purpose - for bedding and culinary use
Sow in cold
frame early spring for transplanting after frosts. Or direct sow late spring
in shallow drills, thin to 30 to 45cm apart and 45cm between rows. can be
cropped until following spring.
Second sowing late summer will give crops until early summer following year.
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Swiss Chard Lucillus 4 gram (140-180 seeds) Pale green petioles with deeply savoyed leaves. Very early. Sow as other Chard £1.10 Add to basket
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Swiss Chard Yellow 100 seeds Yellow Midrib. Ideal baby leaf in salads when used at young leaf stage. As with all chards make excellent border and container plants. Very popular for micro greens. £1.10 Add to basket |
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Swiss Chard
Bright Lights Stems of many colours including gold, pink, orange, purple, red and white, with bright and pastel variations. Lightly savoy coloured green or bronze leaves. Stunning bunched, and baby leaves are a natural salad mix. The taste is milder than ordinary chard, with each colour a bit different. Colourful bedding and other ornamental possibilities abound. If grown from plug trays rather than direct sown, individual colours can be separated out. Suitable for production year round, but somewhat less frost hardy than normal chard. Enough seed for a 80ft row with a plant spacing of 1ft (30cm). Very popular for micro greens. £0.69 approx 35 seeds
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Swiss Chard White Silver 2
2 gram pkt Av 110 seeds Harvest leaf and stems, stalks have a celery flavour, spinach like leaves, ideal for summer and autumn harvest. £1.20 Add to basket
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Rhubarb Chard Charlotte (Red) 3 gram (approx 160 seeds) seed count varies as seed is not uniform. Magnificent red petioles with a dark green waxy leaf for ornamental or culinary use. Harvested small at the baby leaf stage for salads or left to mature. Sow late spring onwards 1 cm deep, 35 cm between rows. Very popular for micro greens. £1.20 Add to basket
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The cultural
information should be used as a guide only, I have found a number of different
sowing techniques for the same seed from different sources there does not seem
to be a standard. With this in mind you should use this website as a guide
only, you probably already have a tried and tested way of sowing different
seeds. As a rule of thumb the larger the seed size the more cover it requires,
and fine seed like Lobelia Begonia etc requires no cover.
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