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How to grow: Swiss Chard

25th June 2020 Shannon Butcher Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

Swiss Chard is worth growing just for its decorative leaves and stems. A clump could be grown in the flower border and not look out of place. The stems and the leaves can be eaten with the leaves making a tasty alternative to spinach. Swiss chard is a crop for autumn, winter and spring harvests at a time when there…

Pickled Rainbow Chard

18th April 2016 Steve Ott Blog, Recipes

Magical chard stems have just as much flavour as the leaves. Lucy Burton shares her recipe for pickled rainbow stems Luscious, sturdy chard is a staple of many vegetable patches. Adaptable to a range of soil acidities and resilient to winters’ frost, chard flourishes throughout the year, and does not have a set season of bloom. Instead, most plants yield…