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

Swede Gowrie

Swede Gowrie
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. Approx 250 seeds per gram.

£1.25 Av 2 gram pkt

Swede Marian seeds

Swede Marian
Purple topped globe shaped variety with yellow flesh, hardy and reliable cropper. Very high yielding, uniform roots.

£1.25 Av 1,000 seeds

Swede Best of All
Purple top variety, medium sized roots with a mild flavour. Very hardy and holds well.

£1.20 Av 1,500 seeds

Swede Melfort seeds

Swede Melfort
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.

£1.20 Av 500 seeds

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.

Beet Bulls Blood
Organic Sourced. An ornamental variety for use as dot plants, edible leaves. An exceptionally deep red beetroot colour, can be used at the young crop stage as a swiss chard alternative. Ideal for baby leaf and Micro Greens.
Av 40-45 seeds/gram
pkt approx 3 gram

Swiss Chard Fantasia Orange
Striking orange stalks and veins contrasting against dark green semi savoy type leaves. Great to mix with other chards or to add colour to a salad. Broad stems are thick and crispy with a great chard flavour. Fantasia Orange has good bolt tolerance but a slightly slower growing habit, maturity 65 days. Very popular baby leaf and micro greens.

£0.69 Av 30 seeds

£1.05 Av 60 seeds

Swiss Chard Rhubarb Chard Elite
Rhubarb Chard Elite has more ridged or wrinkled leaves than standard rhubarb chard, more uniform in colour. Elite has fewer green Off Types and a greater standing ability.
2 gram approx 170 seeds

£1.20 Av 2 gram pkt

Swiss Chard Red Rhubarb Chard Intense
Rhubarb chard Intense has a Rounder leaf than standard rhubarb chards, and has intense red veining. Very popular for adding to salads and stir fry. Intense has fewer green off types. Very popular for baby leaf and micro greens.
2 gram approx 150 seeds

£1.10 Av 2 gram pkt

Swiss Chard Lucullus
Pale green deeply savoyed leaves with white mid ribs. Lucullus is a very tasty and early Swiss Chard. Sow as other Chard. RHS Award of Garden Merit
4 gram approx 140-180 seeds

£1.25 Av 4 gram pkt

Swiss Chard Yellow
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.

£1.20 Av 100 seeds

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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. RHS Award of Garden Merit

£0.79 Av 35 seeds

£1.15 Av 70 seeds

Swiss Chard White Silver 2 seeds

Swiss Chard White Silver 2
Harvest leaf and stems, stalks have a celery flavour, spinach like leaves, ideal for summer and autumn harvest.
2 gram approx 110 seeds

£1.25 Av 2 gram pkt

Red Rhubarb Chard Charlotte

Swiss Chard Rhubarb Chard Charlotte Red
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. RHS Award of Garden Merit
3 gram approx 160 seeds seed count varies as seed is not uniform.

£1.20 Av 3 gram pkt

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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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