Rainbow Bright Lights Swiss Chard Heirloom Seeds, Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris BE9150

Rainbow Swiss Chard Seeds (Beta vulgaris)

Rainbow Swiss Chard is a mix of chard varieties chosen for their stem colors: red, pink, orange, gold and white, all topped with glossy, crinkled green and bronze leaves. It is as ornamental as it is edible, and it looks just as good in a flower bed or a patio pot as it does in the vegetable patch.

It is also one of the easiest and most productive greens you can grow. Chard handles summer heat that sends spinach and lettuce to seed, tolerates light frost at both ends of the season, and keeps producing for months from a single sowing. Pick the outer leaves as you need them and the plant keeps growing from the center.

Harvest young leaves for salads, or let them reach full size for sautéing, soups and braising. The leaves cook down like spinach, and the stems can be chopped and cooked like celery or bok choy. Their color softens with cooking but does not disappear.

Each chard "seed" is really a small cluster holding several seeds, so expect more than one seedling from each spot and thin to the strongest. Sow directly in the garden from early spring, a few weeks before your last frost, and again in late summer for a fall crop. Soaking the seed overnight speeds germination.

Quick facts

• Seed count: 50 seeds
• Non-GMO
• Type: biennial grown as a cool-season annual
• Sun: full sun to part shade
• Sowing depth: 1/2 inch
• Germination: 5 to 10 days at soil temperatures of 50 to 85°F
• Spacing: sow 2 to 4 inches apart, thin to 8 to 12 inches
• Height: 18 to 24 inches
• Maturity: about 30 days for baby leaves, 50 to 60 days for full size
• Suitable for containers

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