'Bright Lights' Swiss Chard Seed

$2.75

Beautiful and nutritious, Bright Lights is a mix of green and black-leaved Swiss Chard in all brilliant colors, including stripes, streaks, and bicolors. Lovely green or bronze leaves with stems of gold, pink, orange, purple, red, and white with bright and pastel variations.

JOY MAX QUALITIES:

  • Chard is a superfood, high in vitamins A, C, and K. It is less bitter than spinach and beet greens but you eat it the same way

  • These stems keep their colors even after light cooking, and have a rich, crisp, peppery bite.

  • Grows well in containers*Will wilt in direct summer sun like a total diva but will recover every single day if given just a teensy bit of shade in the afternoon; choose locatio

Beautiful and nutritious, Bright Lights is a mix of green and black-leaved Swiss Chard in all brilliant colors, including stripes, streaks, and bicolors. Lovely green or bronze leaves with stems of gold, pink, orange, purple, red, and white with bright and pastel variations.

JOY MAX QUALITIES:

  • Chard is a superfood, high in vitamins A, C, and K. It is less bitter than spinach and beet greens but you eat it the same way

  • These stems keep their colors even after light cooking, and have a rich, crisp, peppery bite.

  • Grows well in containers*Will wilt in direct summer sun like a total diva but will recover every single day if given just a teensy bit of shade in the afternoon; choose locatio

Planting Information: Direct seed or transplant to allow separating out the individual colors if that matters to you. To speed germination, soak seeds in water for 24 hours prior to planting. Sow seeds ½ to 1 inch deep, 2 to 6 inches apart, in rows 18 inches apart. Continue planting seeds at 10-day intervals for a month. Chard is best treated as a “cut-and-come-again” crop. This harvesting technique involves taking only a few older leaves at a time from each plant, allowing younger leaves to continue growing for additional harvests later in the season.

Beta vulgaris PLANT HEIGHT 20” PLANT WIDTH: 12-16” SEED SPACING: 3” SEED DEPTH: ½” IDEAL TEMP: 60-80º GERMINATION: 5-20 Days DAYS TO MATURITY: 55 / 28 baby SOIL: rich, well-drained LIGHT: Full Sun / Some shade in spring OPEN POLLINATED

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