Rhubarb Chard

Wonderful flavour

Instead of rainbow chard, I decided to get this along with the canary yellow chard, and I've enjoyed a couple of harvests already. The flavour is excellent. These chards do well in my raised garden beds.

Fantastic germination in warm summer soils , harvesting comes quick when you summer plant in July. As the spring planted chard gets prone to mildews late august you can cut it right down to the smallest leaves and switch harvest to the vibrant and vigorous July planting, when daylight wanes and the summer planting slows its production, the spring plants are full of fresh new leaves again and mildew infestation is avoided. The double planting will stagger your harvesting in the winter and come back double on the other side of the winter dormancy. Ruhbarb chard is a fantastic staple in the home or market garden year round.

Great salad chard.

I primarily grow this chard in the winter as a component of a greenhouse grown spring mix. It is organic, germinates evenly and is quite resistant to damping off. Leaves are strong and erect, easily harvested, and it looks and tastes great in the salad mix.